Lesson 3: Adversarial Fashion – Clothes That Trick AI
Lesson 3: Adversarial Fashion – Clothes That Trick AI
Your hoodie might be your best disguise.
🔚 TL;DR
👕 AI tracks clothing, not just faces.
🎭 Use adversarial fashion to confuse AI object recognition.
🔦 Reflective materials can blind night vision and infrared tracking.
📢 If AI can’t classify you, it can’t track you.
🔍 What’s the Problem?
AI surveillance doesn’t just track faces—it tracks clothing patterns, shapes, logos, and colors to follow people through multiple cameras.
- Retailers use it to track repeat customers.
- Governments use it to ID protestors, even if their faces are hidden.
- AI can even re-identify people based on outfits across different locations.
👕 Your clothes might be revealing more than you think.
But what if your outfit could fight back?
Adversarial fashion is a design movement that weaponizes clothing against AI surveillance. By wearing patterns and materials that confuse or mislead computer vision algorithms, you can make it harder for AI to track you in public.
👁 How AI Tracks Clothing
Even if your face is covered, AI-powered surveillance systems use object recognition to track people based on their:
✔ Clothing colors & patterns
✔ Logos & symbols on shirts, hats, and bags
✔ Consistent outfits across different locations
✔ Body shape and proportions
📢 Takeaway: If you’re wearing the same recognizable hoodie every day, AI doesn’t need your face—it knows who you are.
🔗 Illustration: AI tracking people based on clothing
🛠 What Techniques Can You Use?
Adversarial fashion tricks AI into misidentifying or losing track of a person. Here’s how:
1️⃣ HyperFace Patterns – Flood AI with Fake Faces
👕 What is it?
HyperFace patterns are specially designed prints that contain dozens of “fake faces”. AI struggles to distinguish real human faces from the decoys, leading to false positives and recognition errors.
✅ Use:
- Hoodies, scarves, and T-shirts with HyperFace patterns.
- Any design that overloads facial detection systems.
🚫 Avoid:
- Wearing solid colors or plain clothing, which makes tracking easier.
🔗 Example: HyperFace Patterns Confusing AI
https://adam.harvey.studio/hyperface/
📢 Takeaway: The more faces AI sees, the less confident it becomes.
2️⃣ CV Dazzle Hoodies – Disrupt AI’s Ability to Recognize Humans
👕 What is it?
CV Dazzle is an experimental camouflage technique that uses high-contrast geometric shapes to disrupt how AI detects humans. The irregular patterns break up the typical silhouette of a person, making it harder for AI to classify someone as a human.
✅ Use:
- Hoodies, jackets, and accessories with sharp, high-contrast geometric patterns.
- Black-and-white designs that distort body outlines.
🚫 Avoid:
- Monochrome outfits or skin-tight clothing, which makes tracking easier.
🔗 Example: CV Dazzle-Inspired Hoodie
📢 Takeaway: If AI can’t tell you’re a person, it can’t track you.
3️⃣ Reflective Materials – Blind Night Vision & Infrared Cameras
👕 What is it?
Many surveillance cameras rely on infrared (IR) sensors to track people in low-light conditions. Certain fabrics and reflective materials can blind these systems, making the wearer appear as a bright white blob in infrared footage.
✅ Use:
- Jackets and scarves made with infrared-blocking materials.
- Reflective fabrics that bounce back light from IR cameras.
🚫 Avoid:
- Dark-colored outfits at night—these make you more visible to AI.
🔗 Example: Reflective Clothing Blocking IR Surveillance
https://adam.harvey.studio/stealth-wear/
📢 Takeaway: In the right outfit, AI cameras will see everything except you.
⚠ But Does It Work?
Yes—but only in the right conditions.
✔ Older AI models are easily confused by adversarial fashion.
✔ Newer AI systems learn over time, but struggle with high variation.
✔ If more people wear these designs, it becomes harder for AI to adapt.
📢 Takeaway: The goal isn’t just personal protection—it’s making surveillance unreliable for everyone.
🛠 How to Use This in Daily Life
✔ Rotate your outfits frequently—never wear the same thing in public too often.
✔ Choose clothes with high-contrast patterns to throw off object detection.
✔ Use reflective accessories to blind night vision and infrared cameras.
✔ If possible, combine multiple adversarial fashion techniques for maximum effect.
📢 Final Takeaway: AI expects patterns—your job is to break them.
🛠 Resources & DIY Guides
🔗 HyperFace Patterns – Wearable AI Camouflage
🔗 CV Dazzle Fashion – Camouflage Against AI
🔗 Anti-Surveillance Reflective Clothing
What’s Next?
In the next lesson, we’ll look at License Plate & Vehicle Cloaking—because your car is an ID tag on wheels.
👉 Continue to Lesson 4: License Plate & Vehicle Cloaking
👁🗨 Final Thought:
Surveillance isn’t just about cameras—it’s about control. The more people resist, the weaker AI tracking becomes. Keep jamming the system. 🚀