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Juggalo Makeup Blocks Facial Recognition Technology (2019)

https://consequence.net/2019/07/juggalo-makeup-facial-recognition/
80•speckx•1h ago

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pgporada•1h ago
Whoop whoop
schmeichel•1h ago
Where my Juggalos at??
NickC25•1h ago
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, sitting behind the resolute desk. That person wears more makeup than some of the performers on RuPaul's Drag Race.
nathan_compton•59m ago
Don't sully the good name of Juggalos this way.
soopypoos•1h ago
I wonder if I'm more likely to get denied entry wearing juggalo face or classic camo paint
QuantumNomad_•1h ago
Depends. Are you attending an ICP concert, or a military reenactment convention, or something else entirely?
bigfishrunning•1h ago
Miracles all around us
Forgeties79•46m ago
You could throw on the SNL skit or the real video and frankly I wouldn’t be able to tell the difference
refulgentis•1h ago
Clickbait, it’s a couple tweets microwaved and the 3rd paragraph is “well, except for modern facial recognition”
everdrive•1h ago
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.

fer•41m ago
>covering features impacts accuracy of feature-based classifiers

More new at 9. Plus it's from 2019.

Findecanor•1h ago
(2019) ... but sadly increasingly relevant.
ChrisMarshallNY•1h ago
I guess LiveNation won't be running ICP concerts, then...
world2vec•10m ago
They'll just charge an additional makeup fee...
echelon_musk•1h ago
Shamelessly hijacking this story to recommend The Private Eye digital comic [0]. Set in a future where everyone has normalised the wearing of masks in public to preserve their anonymity. The protagonist refuses to get a driving license because he wouldn't want a photo of himself in a database.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Private_Eye

lucasay•1h ago
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.
saalweachter•45m ago
It's not actually an oversight or training failure; as one of the six societies which secretly rule the world, the Juggalos simply demand to be exempt from facial recognition.
atomicnumber3•20m ago
Juggalos, bronies, 9th doctor fans, billionaires, royals (baseball team), and royals (landed nobility)?
stackghost•13m ago
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.

mcv•44m ago
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/

yacin•44m ago
maybe it's just from being covered in Faygo?
alexjplant•10m ago
Faygo is unironically delicious. They used to sell them for $1 a pop (Midwestern pun intended) on the East Coast in gas stations. Diet varieties of Orange, Moon Mist, and Root Beer were personal favorites.

No idea whether this is still the case as I haven't seen them in years.

hackitup7•12m ago
I'll make sure to wear my Juggalo makeup the next time I visit China to avoid their face scanning technology. That'll surely help me blend into the background.
Larrikin•10m ago
In 2018 it was already common knowledge that gait analysis was more accurate than facial recognition at the time. This would have been defeatable then.

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