Here's the original article: https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything

How long until Meta starts blackmailing people with this shit?

Epstein 2.0

One could make a decent bit of $ on "I do not consent" knitted balaclavas on Etsy.

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

Who could have guessed…

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.

The absolute tone-deafness of not seeing that meta seeing the things is the disturbing part.

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.

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.

Now I'm chuckling at the thought that the view from these glasses is likely to be used for training AI, so you could have a bit of fun just aiming them at the most horrifying but legal porn you can find and plonk them down aimed at the screen while you go do other stuff.

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.

For real, The real question here is why does anyone at Meta have access to users data like that. This is rhetorical.

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.

Marky Z is watching you pee and calling it "streaming."

Underrated comment (the article is also already in English).

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.

These glasses and the people who wear them are disturbing.

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?

Ahh yes, another reason mark zuckerberg needs to get luigi'd

Oh man! A friend just sent me this earlier today, I completely forgot to sign, but seeing this reminded me! Sharing the love.

https://c.org/BVqdM4SGS2

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.

cause it's a mechanical turk

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.

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/

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.

Even integrated headphones would do.

'I have nothing to hide."

/s

We get to return to the verbiage “glasshole” right

Tesla was like 'we could use lidar, but instead we'll use CAMERAS'

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.

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.”

Orwell got it wrong with the wall mounted screens - 'they' want us to wear the screens. What was that album title? 'If you accept this,your kids are next.,
' Can't remember which band

my dude

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).

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. 🤔

Okay now take this and make it not look like tacti-cool bullshit that would come with a glock

But this is not the problem but a symptom. Of you having no right to privacy (and if, it can be overwritten by some ToS).

Yet another surveilance tool marketed as a cool tech gadget.

Oof imaging being employed to do captchas all day.

So? Even generating awareness about this nonsense is a +1 to society.

Cute comment tho.

If you tolerate this, your children will be next. Is a Manic Street Preachers song.

Thanks, almost got it right. A long while since I listened.

I remember when cool tech gadgets were cool and not undisguised spy tools.

You have a reduced right to privacy in public but not eliminated all together.

Beats starvation, tho :/