These drones can have any sensor you want. IR, motion detection, radio signals, you name it. Hiding from AI equipped with the right sensors is very hard. The only advantage you have is that you can hear them coming. For now anyway.
Hikers typically wear the exact opposite of camouflage.
Edit: really? Downvotes? Hiker gear is half neon colors and colored in reflective tabs. Easy visibility for SAR purposes is a design criteria for most hiking gear.
Hunter’s orange is pretty damn bright by design. I would also argue that hunter != hiker.
I’ve never noticed a correlation between photographers and clothing colors. I tend not to be in my own photos, so it’s not something I select gear based on.
Obviously not every bag is bright, although my wife’s bag is a nice metallic teal, but every hiking bag I’ve ever seen has reflector tabs built in. Ditto with our tent and rain flies, and quite a few of our tops. They help in a SAR situation, and improve safety if you ever need to come close to a road at night.
Taste is subjective, but outdoor gear trends towards the bright for safety reasons.
I have never seen a hiker wear camo, all of them have reflector tabs, and a large percentage have tops, bags, and hats in bright colors. And that’s not even getting into inclement weather gear, which trends towards the super garish. There’s a reason why Everest has a “rainbow valley”, and it’s not because heavy coats are designed to be subtle.
To bolster your point, even if my clothes are drab, I probably have a brightly colored buff or bandana on me intentionally if only to be easier to spot through the woods by fellow hikers. Likewise a fair bit of my gear is in flavors of "rescue orange".
I pointed out that hunting isn’t hiking (opinion, but they do have different names), and that regardless hunters regularly wear gear that is anti-camouflage by design, making any distinction there moot.
I then proceeded to point out that hiking gear has reflective tabs and bright colors for similar reasons. The more extreme the gear, the more intense the visibility features on average.
I then made an observation about what I’ve seen.
At no point did I say that any of those groups aren’t “real” hikers. Therefore, not a true Scotsman argument.
