Frankly humanity does not need this invention one bit.
It may have legitmately sounded interesting and futuristic to some people a decade ago, but with the way tech companies are trending this type of tech will become an absolute surveillance and privacy nightmare. I mean it aleady is really, but it will get so so much worse.
Regulate and legislate these into oblivion. At the very least tech companies need to be punished financially for trying to speed run dystopia but I fear we’re already sliding down that slope and it’s too late
Frankly humanity does not need this invention one bit.
Yah. Unfortunately, we’ve got it though. :( :( :(
People I know, some friends, they are completely oblivious to how much it will surveillance them. Or how much Meta already does, in other ways. “I don’t care, I’m not doing anything wrong”.
Constant surveillance erodes a society. It erodes democracy.
Half Life 2:
C1: This is how it always starts. First a building, then the whole block.
C2: They have no reason to come to our place.
C1: Don’t worry, they’ll find one.
Get a webcam and place it prominently in their house, when askes tell them they have nothing to hide so youd like to watch. Bonus points for putting in the bedroom or bathroom.
Genies out of the bottle now man.
Look forward to an arms race and eventually a cold war. This is our generations nuke.
Would’ve been great tech if they didn’t place fucking cameras into it
WHY ARE THEY LOOKING?
being sent to offshore contractors for data labeling, a widely-used preprocessing step in training new AI models in which human contractors are asked to review and annotate footage.
From another article I read about this, seems like it involves a lot of drawing precise boxes around people and objects, stuff like that. Terminators gotta learn their sex moves from somewhere.
In a certain nihilistic dreadful sense it’s hilarious how these AI advancements are built on the backs of exploitative manual labor. On the surface the AI models are so utterly impressive at how “smart” and advanced the tech appears to be, but the truth of it is just slave labor building a catalog of labeled data sourced from mass surveillance. The aliens should really intervene soon, before we build something that can threaten them…
Oof imaging being employed to do captchas all day.
Beats starvation, tho :/
I actually did data labeling work on amazon mturk for a while, it does kind of suck, the main saving grace was I could largely do it on my own schedule but I assume these people don’t really get that benefit.
They need someone to review and tag the recorded footage to train AI models.
No moment is private when wearing these glasses. I’m glad they haven’t caught on where I live.
Read the article??
“You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work,” the employee said. “You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”
It was a rhetorical question, and directed at Facebook as a collective.
cause it’s a mechanical turk
Yet another surveilance tool marketed as a cool tech gadget.
I remember when cool tech gadgets were cool and not undisguised spy tools.
It’s almost absurd at this point, but i used to be really into gadgets and tech and shit. Now everything i see is like: that’s a spy tool. That’s showing ads. That is an ad. That is just a lie.
Same. At most I got 15 years left and I doubt I will ever see this changing in my lifetime.
How is this cool in any way.
The future is now, old man!
They wouldn’t! Not a penis camera right? Thry wouldn’t!
Oh they would!
And then make it mandatory for everyone with a penis.
For child protection, you know.Just noticed Child Protection.
The absolute tone-deafness of not seeing that meta seeing the things is the disturbing part.
So you’re telling me that the creepy motherfuckers who would wear something like this around in public do creepy things?
Never would have guessed that. 🤔
Also why is Meta watching that footage?
I’m pretty sure they monitor everything on all of their platforms, I don’t know if they have to for legal reasons or just choose to.
Yeah, sorry I just read the article and found the answer, they tag the videos to train their AI.
It really doesn’t matter if facial recognition is enabled or not today, it can always be done later on. This is a huge invasion of privacy.
I don’t think even George Orwell could have predicted that one day they’d put the cameras inside glasses, it would be common knowledge that they’re in there and the they’re spying on you and everyone you look at, and people would still voluntarily buy them with their own money and wear them around.
that’s why aldous huxley was a better author
In soviet russia, glasses see you!
Just wait until they have brainwave scanners on the sides
How long until Meta starts blackmailing people with this shit?
Epstein 2.0
For real, The real question here is why does anyone at Meta have access to users data like that. This is rhetorical.
Marky Z is watching you pee and calling it “streaming.”
Here’s the original article: https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything
Underrated comment (the article is also already in English).
Le facebook product is… le spying?
God I wish they’d stop putting cameras in these and just make a nice pair of prescription glasses with good integrated headphones, a heads of display, and some basic touch controls on the stem.
I would genuinely enjoy this for easy listening and maps.
Right? Make a product that a majority of people could find useful and not have any backlash at all…but then again, they’ve never been a product company. They’ve always been a personal information broker.
my dudeOkay now take this and make it not look like tacti-cool bullshit that would come with a glock
😂 girl, I’m not a cop!
Even integrated headphones would do.
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Well that’s what you get for spying on people. Duh
Meta learning what the meme-CIA agents had been subjected to for years.
These glasses and the people who wear them are disturbing.
'I have nothing to hide."
/s
Except for the first part of that quote. /s
One could make a decent bit of $ on “I do not consent” knitted balaclavas on Etsy.
Dont they make glasses that blind cameras with infrared to obscure facial recognition? Im thinking a whole line of accessories (necklaces, earings, hats, etc) that fuck up these glasses ability to record you without consent. Not sure how technically feasible that all is but would love to see something like it to counteract these.
I think the problem with mass adoption of that kind of anti surveillance tech is that most people will not trade the convenience of being able to take pictures of themselves for the privacy of other people not being able to take pictures of them. Even if it’s a toggle switch.
Also wearing them identifies you as “a person wearing anti-spyware” glasses.
It’s like not having a Facebook account, your shadow shows everyone you aren’t, leaving the only person you could be.
And? I’m still very thankful to have completely deleted my account and tend to wear a mask in public. Its more about consent than hiding anything
In your defense, they aren’t tracking your every move in pseudo-real time and tracking every app they can get their code into inside your phone.
but dude needs to buy a lawnmower and a tv used every now and then, so the bookmark stays. That shit isn’t on my phone tho.
Yeah i keep a librewolf instance on my desktop open with tabs for shopping lol
I think you’re unfortunately right on that point. There’s probably a higher chance of those types of devices being outlawed than Meta glasses and similar products being outlawed, knowing how our legal systems love to defer to corporations.
Theres also the whole deal with being able to legally film and photograph in a public space, which I support for sure, but this is very much not the same as that when a whole team of people overseas are reviewing everything along with AI analysing it, and with these glasses still operating in not-public spaces. Even the act of having to pull out a phone and physically hold it up to film is a small protection of privacy, because at least others can recognize that that person is filming. The passive always-recording nature of these glasses is truly frightening.
At least they are chunky and kinda stupid looking enough to be recognizable… for now. It will be scary when there are dozens or hundreds of variations that look no different than any style of regular glasses.
I wonder what would be the power consumption of a device that sits on your head and emits IR light in all directions until you turn it off, instead of just over your eyes. Similar to how microphone blockers work.
What would jewelry and hats do about cameras?
The idea being that anything near the face emitting enough IR could potentially affect the meta glasses and obscure your face. I think IR LEDs draw less power than red LEDs but dont quote me Im not an engineer.
https://hackaday.com/2020/02/28/using-ir-leds-to-hide-in-plain-sight/
I think at least some are scams. I would think there are ways to design cameras to mostly mitigate this too. I’m guessing ALPRs have the ability to see license plates at night even though headlights are emitting a large amount of light over a broad spectrum (including IR).
If you’re in public in the US, consent doesn’t matter at all. We need to actively block surveillance, create our own privacy.
