# Source note — Pepper-pattern “Digital Camouflage” shirt: real AI-surveillance critique, not guaranteed invisibility (2026-09-06)

Original Facebook URL: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1D4qr8rRgr/?mibextid=wwXIfr  
Resolved URL: https://m.facebook.com/watch/?v=2580690272397999&_rdr  
Uploader: Jake vs the state  
Duration: 79.367 seconds

## Preserved transcript
[0.00-6.56] A Berlin-based artist created a shirt designed to confuse AI-powered surveillance cameras
[6.56-11.92] and make it so that the person wearing it is impossible for computer vision systems to recognize.
[11.92-14.32] He's called it digital camouflage.
[14.32-17.20] Yeah, but it's gotten through the direction I'll face with the reflection.
[17.20-23.36] We also see that, for example, cars have a certain painting to be invisible against floor camera.
[23.36-26.40] The shirt's unusual pattern is not designed to look cool.
[26.40-30.96] The artist Simon Wecker developed it through repeated testing against Yolo
[30.96-34.16] an open source AI object detection software.
[34.16-39.76] With every iteration, he adjusted the pattern to reduce the AI's confidence in identifying
[39.76-41.60] the wearer as a person.
[41.60-44.56] So effectively, to the cameras, you're nothing.
[44.56-48.72] It doesn't even identify the person as a person, so it doesn't track them at all.
[48.72-50.08] It's fade into the background.
[50.08-56.32] Simon started the project in Berlin as they prepared to introduce an AI-assisted video surveillance.
[56.72-62.08] Where cameras could analyze footage and flag specific types of behaviour-deemed suspicious.
[62.08-67.76] And if the name sounds familiar, this is the same guy who famously dragged 99 smartphones
[67.76-70.56] through an empty Berlin Street in 2020,
[70.56-74.64] tricking Google Maps into it, detecting a traffic jam on the streets,
[74.64-77.28] improving that Google was tracking your every movement.
[77.28-79.28] Absolute legend, what do you guys think?

## Evidence label
PBC Freedom source-check on Simon Weckert’s pepper-pattern Digital Camouflage shirt and what it does — and does not — prove about AI surveillance.