Adversarial patches: colorful circles that convince machine-learning vision system to ignore everything else

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/01/08/what-banana.html

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“I’m a little toast bot…”

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You can fool some of the AIs some of the time…

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Just look at it.

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So when will we be seeing T-shirts with such designs in the boing boing store?

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Headline from 2025: “Incidents of Toaster-Perpetrated Terrorism at All-Time High”

Subhed: “BananaPAC Celebrates Vindicating Evidence.”

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I wonder if you could design a patch that could be placed on any street sign that would consistently mess with self-driving car AI (maybe by turning all roads into 10mph speed zones or autobahns).

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Just look at them.

banthing

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Look at what?

WHAT?

I’M CONFUSED

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Wow, It accurately was able to figure that out despite the sticker.

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All I see is a toaster, This article is just plain weird.

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At least somebody is willing to acknowledge how the BBS works. Very funny, guys!

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treachery

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Apply these patches in the correct pattern and you get the DRM to start fighting with the AI.

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Those headlines are already here, complete with commentary.

https://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditSimulator/

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We may also hope that transitivity obtains. Those turtle helicopters are becoming a nuisance.

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Is the fact that we now have expert systems that produce content-free clickbait for other expert systems a sign of progress; or a signal that we should burn down everything Turing complete and summon the meteors?

Already a plot device in one of Gibson’s books:

http://www.tatewilliams.org/2014/07/04/blue-ant-surveillance-armor-ugliest-t-shirt-world/

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