Facial recognition’s latest foe: Italian knitwear

At first glance, the sweater looks like something from The Cosby Show: colorful swirls, crazy textures, a sort of abstract collage of greens, reds, yellows. But his knitwear has a secret mission: fooling facial recognition software. 

Rachele Didero, the founder of Italian fashion tech startup Cap_able wanted her clothing and designs to “have a function” beyond fashion. And the resulting Manifesto Collection is a line of sweaters, hoodies, T-shirts and pants that are all part of an experiment in adversarial …

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