Discussion
It turns out that Juggalo makeup blocks facial recognition technology
pgporada: Whoop whoop
refulgentis: Clickbait, it’s a couple tweets microwaved and the 3rd paragraph is “well, except for modern facial recognition”
everdrive: This feels like the real-life equivalent of that old Family Guy joke where peter is with a squad of dudes in Vietnam but is dressed like a clown. He says something to the effect of "You guys are stupid. They're going to be looking for army guys." Outside of the absurdity of the situation, the joke is that the guy dressed as a clown obviously stands out even more.Juggalo makeup might block some facial recognition tech, but you also paint a huge target on yourself.
ChrisMarshallNY: I guess LiveNation won't be running ICP concerts, then...
Findecanor: (2019) ... but sadly increasingly relevant.
bigfishrunning: Miracles all around us
yacin: maybe it's just from being covered in Faygo?
mcv: Not surprising at all. It's a form of dazzle camouflage that has previously been shown to confuse facial recognition[0]. It's probably possible to design it to be more effective yet less intrusive than juggalo makeup.I would have actually expected it to be more popular by now.[0] https://adam.harvey.studio/cvdazzle/
lucasay: I’m more curious about how robust this is against modern systems. A lot of newer facial recognition models are trained on occlusions, masks, and heavy makeup — so this might be less effective than people assume.
stackghost: It's likely that e.g. wifi-based gait analysis can be deployed to defeat this.The only saving grace is you can't run that against video surveillance footage.
