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Aug 29, 2026 · Archive
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Artist's Shirt Tricks AI Cameras Into Not Seeing A Person

Simon Weckert built the garment from academic adversarial-clothing research and tested it against YOLO near Berlin's Kottbusser Tor surveillance station.

  • Kottbusser Tor's behavior-scanning camera system in Berlin is set to switch on in 2025-2026.
  • The pattern draws on peer-reviewed research, including Hu et al.'s work on adversarial clothing.
  • Weckert admits the shirt makes no claim against real government systems, since outsiders cannot test them.

Why it matters: The state builds the surveillance machine, and the market now sells the citizen a way to vanish.

Simon Weckert — Digital Camouflage project page ↗ · Aug 29, 20268/29/26