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The New York Times / Kashmir Hill / Aug 4, 2020
It “disguises photos with pixel-level changes that confuse facial recognition systems…If deployed across millions of images, it would be a broadside against facial recognition systems, poisoning the accuracy of the so-called data sets they gather from the web.” One downside: “Women get mustaches, and guys get extra eyelashes or eye shadow.” JB
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