Researchers unveil colorful patch that makes wearers unrecognizable to AI surveillance

Researchers say powerful, artificially-intelligent surveillance systems capable of tracking your every move may have an unlikely kryptonite: a simple printable patch. In a demonstration, engineers from KU Leuven, a university in Belgium, showed how subjects wearing specially designed patches -- about the size of a vinyl record -- were able to elude an algorithm designed to identify humans. In a YouTube video two researchers, one without the patch and another with the colorful card hung around his neck, are shown standing in front of a camera working in tandem with an algorithm to identify both objects and humans in the room. In a demonstration, engineers from KU Leuven, a university in Belgium, showed how subjects wearing specially designed patches -- about the size of a vinyl record -- were able to allude an algorithm designed to identify humans. While the demonstrator without the patch is clearly marked by the algorithm, his counterpart seems to be completely invisible.