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[–] ZDL@lazysoci.al 137 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Oh wow! A whole new generation of "glassholes" coming up!

[–] SanctimoniousApe@lemmings.world 63 points 1 week ago

Google Glass at least had the indicator light, and was relatively obvious - this is worse.

[–] slakje@piefed.social 99 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Who would have thought that people don’t want to be recorded without their knowledge or consent?

This would be a huge setback to anyone even remotely concerned about privacy.

[–] wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Yeah, this is understandable but like, where were these people who are up in arms two decades ago? The ship has sailed. Walk around in any store, mall, shopping center, urban area... But no, all those recording devices are to keep me "safe". But glasses, now that's too far.

[–] Junkers_Klunker@feddit.dk 24 points 1 week ago (1 children)

There’s a huge difference between a somewhat stationary surveillance camera and a hidden personal camera that films 24/7 without an indicator.

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[–] Dojan@pawb.social 75 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

So transformative will it prove to the human brain, the twenty-something-year-old inventors promise, that wearers will soon be not just thinking, but "vibe thinking."

End this. Go down to the Titanic, please.

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[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 69 points 1 week ago (7 children)

So I know what to look for in the future for people to avoid, the glasses apparently look like this:

[–] ech@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 week ago (2 children)

And putting Ray Ban on the "never buy a fucking thing from" list.

[–] kautau@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You should go up the chain and put the parent company of the parent company and all the related properties there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EssilorLuxottica

[–] Corn@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That's 99% of eyeglasses in the US and Canada

[–] MOCVD@mander.xyz 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] ramenshaman@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Ray Ban's parent company is going to have AI glasses from all of the companies they own. I was boycotting Ray Ban up until I learned that it's really fucking difficult to find prescription sunglasses big enough for my giant head that can accommodate my very strong prescription and Ray Ban had the only pair that I could find.

[–] Mellibird@lemmy.myserv.one 6 points 1 week ago

Also throwing out Zenni as an option. I'm on the verge of coke bottle sized lenses and can find many frames from them.

[–] pezhore@infosec.pub 5 points 1 week ago

Have you tried Warby Parker? I've been using them for prescription sunglasses for years with decent success and I'm blind as a bar without lenses.

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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 41 points 1 week ago

Genuinely, every person who participated in creating this should be taken out to an island and dumped there, to be forgotten about.

This is vile.

[–] paulbg@programming.dev 39 points 1 week ago (1 children)

imagine passing everything you see in life to openai api

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

worse, meta ai api

[–] PacMan@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago

I remember this Black Mirror episode! Dudes wife was banging someone else and he gets wicked drunk crashes his car and replays the memory over and over again for years. Good Times! 🫠

[–] BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 33 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

This is a very interesting article. We’re walking right into the very dystopia that so many sci-fi authors repeatedly have warned us about. They were warnings, not a playbook.

What distinguishes a panopticon isn't merely inescapable surveillance, but the fact that you don't know when you're being watched. You simply have to live with the unbearable uncertainty that, at any moment, you could be.

Whether people realize it or not, we already live in a panopticon. Not only are there camera everywhere - on buildings, businesses, homes, streets, phones, cars, etc - but there are other sensors and mechanisms tracking things like your movement, activity, and heart rate.

…despite a growing body of research suggesting that relying on AI models leads to critical thinking skills atrophying.

There was a novel that predicted this decades ago. The main character was so reliant on his AR goggles that when they were stolen in a mugging he was nearly catatonic until his friends got it back.

This is the world we are heading toward, and I don’t know what we can possibly do at this point to minimize the harm to both our environment and our species. The worst-case dystopia seems more and more inevitable by the day.

Edit: The novel was Accelerando, by Charles Stross

[–] alt_xa_23@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Companies need to stop building the torment nexus

[–] 2deck@lemmy.world 19 points 1 week ago

We need to stop building the companies

[–] Krauerking@lemy.lol 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I work for a company that has decided that they want to move forward with a device that will emit a frequency that allows them to track individual cell phones which they plan to use to target people with ads.
This is a hotel that will know where all their guests are at all times and will use it to tell them what to do.

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[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 5 points 1 week ago (5 children)

Sliders, the 90s sci-fi TV show had an episode that explored similar themes with VR. Also the 2020 indie adventure game Virtua Verse also has similar VR themes dominating people's perceptions of reality to the point that some people spend their whole lives in love a robot that looks like a beautiful person when you have your headset on.

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 29 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (12 children)

Are there glasses that scrambles other people's cameras that the rest of us could wear?

[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass.... And I'm all out of bubblegum.

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[–] BurgerBaron@piefed.social 27 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Big Brother strapped to your fucking face.

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[–] WoodScientist@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

As someone whose taught a fair number of undergrad classes, my nightmare scenario is a student showing up to an exam wearing one of these fucking things. When I tell them to take the damn things off, they then might protest saying they have prescription lenses and that they're the only way they can take the exam.

[–] utopiah@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Can't it just be in the requirement of the exam? If they have connected glasses, they have to remove them for the duration of the exam and use them only after leaving the room. If they are spotted with them, they get disqualified instantly?

Edit: IMHO the accessibility argument would not stand for a written exam as those glasses are often used to transcribe audio. If it's written there is nothing to transcribe thus is not required. Those glasses are also more expensive than the non connected one so economically speaking if they can afford these glasses, they sure can afford the non connected ones. If they don't have a pair of non connected glasses they have to plan ahead of the exam which typically happens weeks if not months after the beginning of the semester so it's on them to plan accordingly.

TL;DR: forbid them in school ToS.

[–] devdoggy@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Who would have thought that people wouldn't want to be surveilled?? What the fuck?? Why???

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[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 week ago
[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 13 points 1 week ago

This is worse than a prison. In a prison the prisoners cells are not normally under video surveillance unless the prisoner was super high risk for something.

Even Epstein, a true high risk prisoner, didn't have cameras inside his cell, and he was allegedly on suicide watch when he was murdered by Trump's goons to try to cover up his pedo shit.

[–] DarkCloud@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

Invasion of the privacy snatchers.

[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

"AI-powered". That alone should turn everyone off

[–] 20cello@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Who would buy them in first place

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago

Not the good guys.

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[–] TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Makes me paranoid now to go out.

I've been like that for many, many years.

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[–] Showroom7561@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 week ago

Record Everything Constantly

Which camera glasses have all-day battery life? 🤔

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