Does this actually work?
It’s a company who makes clothing which supposedly stop camera tracking facial recognition technology.
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Authoritative website:
The claim is that Cap_able’s Manifesto product line has been tested and can defeat YOLO:
Here is a third-party blog article that is more comprehensive then the others I have found:
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I guess it’s better than this one: Urban privacy 
Yet it is also quite more expensive but at the same time, the design is cool. 
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I think these kinds of designs should be public domain if they actually work
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Nothing blocks you from replicating it.
Is there some IP on it?
Most people could probably figure out how to do such patterns themselves given a bit of research but then it’s more about having the fabric being done etc. 
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Yes, a patent from Cap_able has been created for the “adversarial design”, although I have already attempted to search for it throughout the main website for several minutes yesterday without success.
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Thanks, it seems to be working, but it’s a cat and mouse game. Meaning a software update could render your clothing useless.
I put this brand in my radar and might buy from them in the future!
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What a sentence 
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I don’t know if this actually fools facial recognition, but I can’t walk around wearing that. I’m a grown adult.
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Even if it does manage to fool the street cameras;
Best case scenario – everyone you pass will be whipping out their phones to take photos this random halfwit cosplaying as a frickin giraffe, uploading to all their socmed accounts.
Worst case scenario – you trigger trypophobia en masse, induce seizures on multiple people, and get labelled as a new kind of terrorist.
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This certainly won’t work with advanced recognition software, and people certainly won’t wear something like that. Design over dignity.
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Hahaha, I had a good laugh reading all those replies 
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