The Center for American Progress reports
Maybe [the Hip-Hop duo] Insane Clown Posse isn't your thing, but if you're headed to a protest any time soon, you might want to consider that familiar black and white makeup.
Two years ago, a Georgetown Law report found that half of all American adults are recorded in police facial recognition databases. The databases are, according to the report, made up of "overwhelmingly...non-criminal entities" and are built on state driver's licenses, passports, and visa applications, giving the government the ability to track more than 117 million adults using unregulated software.
In 2016[1], the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) told The Guardian that police in Maryland were using the software to identify protesters from photos and that the database is essentially racist, as it relies on mugshots--disproportionately taken of people of color--that remain in the system, even if the people in the photos weren't charged.
A study from last year found that increasingly intelligent software is even learning how to identify protesters who wear hats and use scarves to cover their faces. The software identifies key parts of a face and makes estimates so the software can recreate a covered face.
[...]Here's where the Juggalos come in.
Basically, as The Outline wrote [July 2], a computer science blogger known on Twitter as @tahkion, made a breakthrough earlier this week when he realized that Juggalo makeup makes it essentially impossible for facial recognition software to figure out who a person is.
[...]The power is mostly in the fact that Juggalo makeup usually includes putting black makeup below the mouth but not all the way to the chin, which messes with recognition software trying to find a person\u2019s jaw.
Of course, one imagines facial recognition software might just start recognizing a face in consistent Juggalo makeup, but, as @tahkion noted, many Juggalos make small changes to the style and Juggalos only wear their makeup for special occasions.
i don't know why i'm replying to this with a serious answer, but to summarize it's because the neural network is trained on contrast levels on normal facial landmarks. you would need to either have a user set the landmarks manually or train a network just on juggalo facepaint
-- TAKHION (@tahkion) July 1, 2018
As The Outline noted, Juggalo makeup won't trick, say, Apple's Face ID, which relies on depth perception rather than visual light, but for law enforcement software that works from, as @tahkion explained it, "contrast levels on normal facial landmarks", Juggalo makeup will do the trick.
[1] Dup'd link in TFA.
(Score: -1, Spam) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 07 2018, @05:56PM (1 child)
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(Score: 2, Interesting) by realDonaldTrump on Saturday July 07 2018, @10:01PM
Enjoy yourself while you can. The Administrators are putting in super-mega-ultra tracking cyber to catch you.
(Score: 2) by HiThere on Saturday July 07 2018, @06:03PM (3 children)
It's hardly surprising that it defeats visual recognition by crowd scanning visual AIs when it defeats me in close-up photo comparison.
Javascript is what you use to allow unknown third parties to run software you have no idea about on your computer.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday July 07 2018, @06:11PM (2 children)
Fucking makeup, how does it work? [knowyourmeme.com]
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(Score: 1) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday July 07 2018, @06:15PM (1 child)
Would Leroy makeup [cinematerror.com] defeat it?
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday July 07 2018, @07:18PM
Yes [cvdazzle.com]
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(Score: 2) by Hartree on Saturday July 07 2018, @06:33PM (3 children)
It may keep the cops from recognizing you, but your friends may think you're a Juggalo.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday July 07 2018, @06:40PM (1 child)
It may keep the cops from recognizing you, but the cops may think you're a Juggalo.
https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=14/07/08/1743221 [soylentnews.org]
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(Score: 2) by MostCynical on Sunday July 08 2018, @01:19AM
Would you rather they thought you were a mime? [designtrends.com]
"I guess once you start doubting, there's no end to it." -Batou, Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday July 07 2018, @07:18PM
My friends already think that I am a Juggalo.
(Score: 2) by shortscreen on Saturday July 07 2018, @10:33PM
between tahkion, takhion, and takyon?
(Score: 2) by legont on Sunday July 08 2018, @12:13AM (1 child)
Use it at extreme socialists places such as NY where it is actually required by law. For entrepreneur minds out there, I want full head light air conditioned one with mirrored full face glass (you can use it for my phone screen while you are at it).
"Wealth is the relentless enemy of understanding" - John Kenneth Galbraith.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 08 2018, @01:37AM
A list of worker-owned cooperatives[1] located there is missing from your comment.
An oversight on your part, clearly.
Here's your chance to add that.
[1] The fundamental unit of Socialism.
...and since you said "extreme", it should be a LONG list.
...or, more likely, you were completely wrong and you meant "moderately successful Liberal Democracy".
For entrepreneur minds
First, the adjective form of that word is "entrepreneurial".
Making it plural and possessive would have also worked.
...and, of course, in that bunch, you're including the (Socialist) Mondragon worker-owned cooperative (which has been eating the lunch of Capitalists for 6 decades).
The thousands and thousands and thousands and thousands of (Socialist) worker-owned cooperatives in northern Italy are also entrepreneurial also routinely eating the lunch of Capitalists.
More details on those in this previous (sub)thread. [soylentnews.org]
You seem to be implying that "entrepreneurial" and "Socialist" are mutually exclusive.
Decades of successful worker-owned cooperatives indicate otherwise.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday July 08 2018, @08:07AM
"Fucking Juggalo makeup artists. How do they work?", complained the AI.
(Score: 2) by darkfeline on Monday July 09 2018, @10:13AM
That's only a temporary solution. The beauty of machine learning is just how ruthlessly effective it is at optimizing a solution to a problem. If it is physically, mathematically possible, a machine learning AI will find the solution.
It's as simple as natural selection: try multiple things, pick the one that is better, repeat 10e10000000 times.
If you train facial recognition on faces with all sorts of different paint, you'll end up with facial recognition that will easily recognize through face paint. It will get to the point where you will need machine learning just to figure out what patterns of face paint can trick the facial recognition, and you'll end up with an AI vs AI adversarial training relationship. Humans won't have a chance, just like with AlphaGo.
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