Artist's Shirt Tricks AI Surveillance Cameras
Berlin artist Simon Weckert created a shirt that confuses AI-powered surveillance cameras into missing people entirely. When someone stands behind this flowery, blurry-print shirt, the camera’s software no longer recognizes them as a person. Weckert designed it in response to new police-run AI cameras at a busy Berlin subway, which track people’s movements and flag unusual behavior. The shirt effectively renders someone invisible to automated video monitoring.
- Berlin police using AI for real-time object detection
- Shirt design blocks AI recognition of humans
- Cameras can flag people for lying down or loitering
- First such police-run AI cameras deployed in Berlin
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