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Could a Shirt Fool Facial Recognition? The Answer Is Complicated

  • Nelson Aguilar--CNET
  • published date: 2026-08-12 23:06:16 UTC

At Defcon, a strange-looking print pushed a researcher below an AI camera’s detection threshold. Now its creator is putting patterns like it on shirts and hoodies, even though worn clothing remains the big unproven test.

A camera and its software labeled Bill Swearingen as a person. Then it suddenly wasnt sure all because of some weird pattern that he held up to disguise himself. I watched it happen from my seat at … [+7477 chars]