Simon Weckert

Jeez.

German designer Simon Weckert has created a summer shirt with a seemingly abstract pattern that actually works as camouflage for AI powered surveillance.

Yep.

Good name.

That's also a thing right now.

Please welcome Simon Weckert.

Hello, welcome to AI Having a Clue brought to you with KPMG, the podcast where we explore the wild world of AI with myself, AI novice, George Butler.

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is the last show with david cooper ai surveillance in public spaces have become invasive and sophisticated think those awful i don't know flock cameras How much should we trust this technology that's supposed to identify and track us? And what happens when a piece of clothing can throw these cameras off? Well, a new T-shirt uses a mathematically designed pattern to confuse these systems.

And I'm here with Berlin-based new media artist and designer of this super cool T-shirt, Simon Weckert.

Simon, welcome to the show.

Hello, hello.

And like, as you mentioned, airports, you know, right, these chilling effects, it's called, right? so that places that are under surveillance we tend to behave differently right at airports you probably would never start to play a football game because you know you might gonna get in serious issues there or you might be a suspicious um person then you know and this is also like another thing i have to say like public places under surveillance also have an influence on the people living there

Fair enough.

Well, I'm here with Simon Weckert, a Berlin-based new media artist who designed this pretty cool T-shirt.

It actually looks cool.

Want to disappear from AI surveillance? Well, you might just need the world's ugliest Hawaiian shirt.

A designer in Germany, Simon Weckert, has created, quote, digital camouflage.

It's a colorful, chaotic, hideous looking shirt pattern designed to confuse AI powered cameras and prevent them from recognizing the wearer as a person.

The pattern was developed using an AI adversarial loop, repeatedly tested it and adjusted the design until he repeatedly tested and adjusted the design.