Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology (2019)

pgporada

Whoop whoop

schmeichel

Where my Juggalos at??

soopypoos

I wonder if I'm more likely to get denied entry wearing juggalo face or classic camo paint

bigfishrunning

Miracles all around us

refulgentis

Clickbait, it’s a couple tweets microwaved and the 3rd paragraph is “well, except for modern facial recognition”

Findecanor

(2019) ... but sadly increasingly relevant.

ChrisMarshallNY

I guess LiveNation won't be running ICP concerts, then...

echelon_musk

Shamelessly hijacking this story to recommend The Private Eye digital comic [0]. Set in a future where everyone has normalised the wearing of masks in public to preserve their anonymity. The protagonist refuses to get a driving license because he wouldn't want a photo of himself in a database. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Eye

lucasay

I’m more curious about how robust this is against modern systems. A lot of newer facial recognition models are trained on occlusions, masks, and heavy makeup — so this might be less effective than people assume.

mcv

Not surprising at all. It's a form of dazzle camouflage that has previously been shown to confuse facial recognition[0]. It's probably possible to design it to be more effective yet less intrusive than juggalo makeup. I would have actually expected it to be more popular by now. [0] https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle/

yacin

maybe it's just from being covered in Faygo?

hackitup7

I'll make sure to wear my Juggalo makeup the next time I visit China to avoid their face scanning technology. That'll surely help me blend into the background.

Larrikin

In 2018 it was already common knowledge that gait analysis was more accurate than facial recognition at the time. This would have been defeatable then.

throwawaypath

Did I accidentally sleep in a time machine? Front page of HN right now has articles on Juggalos and Afroman.

dsiegel2275

Also blocks magnets.

throwway120385

The only way to meaningfully defeat surveillance technology is to make a constitutional amendment that limits its use privately and publicly. We keep fighting it technologically which is an arms race. A cultural solution is the only path forward that will see meaningful success.

beau_g

It would be interesting to first create a taxonomy of juggalo face paint patterns a la aruco markers/April tags, then see if a sufficiently large crowd of juggalos could be used to calibrate cameras

wr639

So maybe they may be smarter then they get credited for being. Probably not. But now anyone feeling uncomfortable about facial recognition tech now know what they can do to combat it if they chose. One question. Can you get thru the airport and onto a plan wearing the makeup?

general_reveal

Fucking magnets and shit, how do they even work?

deltoidmaximus

In Fall; or, Dodge in Hell by Neal Stephenson one of the characters happens by a group of young women wearing devices that project constantly changing colored light patterns onto their faces to prevent facial recognition tracking. It's barely even mentioned in the book but I wondered how viable that was of an idea. The character's only thought on the devices IIRC was that most people only occasionally wore them.