Berlin designer claims $88 'Digital Camouflage' shirt hides wearers from AI cameras

Berlin artist Simon Weckert has built a button-up shirt called Digital Camouflage that AI surveillance cameras fail to register as a human being.

The creation of the garment is a direct response to the AI-powered video system switching on this month at the city’s Kottbusser Tor transit hub.

How can a shirt protect you from surveillance?

Simon Weckert, an artist from Berlin has released a shirt called Digital Camouflage, which can reportedly reduce an object-detection software’s confidence in recognizing a human being.

Weckert stated that these systems never actually learned what a person is, and only learned what people tend to look like across millions of training photos; edges and texture in the early layers, then the head-and-shoulders outline and limb proportions deeper in.

Digital Camouflage exploits that training method with a loud tangle of pink, orange, and green shapes.

Weckert explained that the saturated colors light up a network’s first layers while the overlapping forms distort the body’s outline to the point where the detector cannot stitch the pieces back into a single figure.

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