Why and who's buying those?
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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.
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How is this cool in any way.
The future is now, old man!
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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.
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I don't know what's worse. Meta admitting to spy and nothing happens or the dumb people still buying their crap and using their services.
Le facebook product is... le spying?
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...
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
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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
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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. 🤔
The absolute tone-deafness of not seeing that meta seeing the things is the disturbing part.
Wow, what an admission. Peeping META?
What a surprise
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.
Here's the original article: https://www.svd.se/a/K8nrV4/metas-ai-smart-glasses-and-data-privacy-concerns-workers-say-we-see-everything
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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.
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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
If you tolerate this, your children will be next. Is a Manic Street Preachers song.
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What was that album title? 'If you accept this,your kids are next., '
"If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next." By the Manic Street Preachers.
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These glasses and the people who wear them are disturbing.
Kathryn Bigelow's most under-rated film is almost upon us....just 30 years later than we thought.
Also...if you haven't seen that movie...go watch it. It's low-key one of her best.
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Who could have guessed…
I'm not surprised they are spying and I'm not surprised that the type of person to buy these things would be doing disturbing shit
Ahh yes, another reason mark zuckerberg needs to get luigi'd
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.
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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).
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