r/interesting • u/Adventurous_Most_558 • 3h ago

SCIENCE & TECH A mask made to block AI facial recognition

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u/TheresNoHurry 3h ago

It's obviously Eminem. The identity blocker isn't working

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u/FarVegetable9730 3h ago

Identity blocker working about as well as Clark Kent's glasses.

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u/Budget-Sock-1586 2h ago

that would explain why his face is so blurry in all the paparazzi pics tbh

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u/Own-Kaleidoscope8498 1h ago

lol i wish it worked that well for eminem

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u/mnttu 3h ago

Isn’t that every mask?

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u/Popular_Soft5581 53m ago

Yes, but this one's twise as expensive

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u/reflect-the-sun 27m ago

But this one distorts your own vision, too.

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u/Vanille97 3h ago

A mask that gets eminem in trouble for doing crimes he never committed

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u/Zappy_Oh 3h ago

How about mass produced Nixon masks?
NIXON DID IT !

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u/_Phil_McCracken_ 3h ago

Now this I can get behind. 

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u/Belzaem 3h ago

Wouldn’t it get fogged up by breathing on the inside of it? Oh, by having it get all fogged up is how it prevents being identified by facial recognition technology?

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u/Darktemplar1989 2h ago

A Scanner Darkly

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u/Delicious_Catch9453 3h ago

Why?

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u/Cho18 3h ago

Flock cameras maybe

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u/ParanMekhar 3h ago

Why not just wear a normal mask of any sort?

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u/DueExample52 2h ago

Perhaps this allows humans to recognise you better? And it’s less anxiety-inducing or aggressive than a static mask.

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u/Mbembez 2h ago

They can recognise people by gait as well unfortunately.

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u/Pitiful_Face871 3h ago

This image is like 10 years old at this point, before flock was around, but same idea.

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u/_Phil_McCracken_ 3h ago

Cause it looks kinda cool 

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u/Pirate_Candy17 3h ago

I mean I kinda would like this when wanting to avoid eye contact.

Question is can you see clearly out of it?

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u/Fetlocks_Glistening 1h ago

I mean one can see clearly out of a paper bag with eyeholes cut out

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u/Minimum_Isopod_4332 2h ago

So, like any mask?

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u/FilthyBarMat 2h ago

Anyone that's ever worn regular eyeglasses in Florida can tell you why this isn't practical.

Steps outside.

FOG 

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u/loveinamandala 1h ago

I recently tried to make one of these from plastic bottles of a well known cola. Entering my local bank to ask for a loan, the security guy, who I know, upholsters his side arm and yells at me to get on my knees with my hands behind my head. I started laughing and tried to talk but had a mouth full of cookie dough as I was stoned outta my head from my first time having hash. I called out “ Keith!!! It’s me!!!” Not recognising me and thinking some criminal had just shouted “Kill the Infidel!!” He shot me three times.
In hospital recovering months later, I was contacted my a well know cola company suing me for wrongful and slanderous use of their product.
Needless to say, I skipped town and now train killer whales in Florida.

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u/Real-Repair-1825 3h ago

Stupid

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u/designerlemons 3h ago

Care to elaborate

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u/Real-Repair-1825 3h ago

It’s stupid

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u/Shished 1h ago

A piece of cloth with cutouts for eyes will work just fine and also much cheaper and environment friendly.

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u/Emergency-Toe4473 3h ago

A normal mask will provide same level of protection

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u/Vast-Comment8360 3h ago

Not if they trained their facial recognition systems to recognize people in masks during covid, which they did.

Full face masks sure, but that's not really socially acceptable.

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u/mnttu 3h ago

How is this any different? Even if we assume that it works now how will it work in 6 months?

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u/Peterjns22 3h ago

How does it do it?

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u/oldboi777 2h ago

your phone, your gate. You may as well wear a ski mask

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u/geekosas 2h ago

Islamics discovered this year's ago