It’s not something people reasoned their way towards, it’s constructed propaganda from the Fox News or Prager U crowd (I forget which). They discovered a long time ago that if they want their audiences to hate something that they can just straight up lie about what it is.

Interesting topic, awful article. Three photos, none of which are of the subject of the article, and all of which are captioned with the article title instead of real captions?

Here’s the actual car:

I got it from this much better article from TechCrunch

And here’s the the associated project, noRecognition. It’s a run of ai adversarial clothes.

Briefly addressed in the discussion:

Rather than targeting long-lifetime wearable garments, these materials are more naturally suited to short-term or single-use textile-like systems where environmental sustainability is prioritized. Representative use contexts include biodegradable packaging, temporary exhibition or artistic textiles, and architectural display installations, settings in which conventional materials often persist environmentally despite brief functional lifetimes.

In the context of living textiles, additional metrics such as washability, abrasion resistance, breathability, and wearer comfort have not yet been systematically evaluated and will require further co-optimization of biological and material parameters for practical translation.