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[–] Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world 128 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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

[–] FineCoatMummy@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

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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[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 72 points 1 month ago (5 children)
[–] chicken@lemmy.dbzer0.com 34 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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.

[–] moot@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

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...

[–] Alenalda@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Oof imaging being employed to do captchas all day.

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[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] yogthos@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 month ago

cause it's a mechanical turk

[–] mathemachristian@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.”

[–] Tenderizer78@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It was a rhetorical question, and directed at Facebook as a collective.

[–] barrbaric@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago
[–] pineapple@lemmy.ml 57 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Yet another surveilance tool marketed as a cool tech gadget.

[–] ArmchairAce1944@discuss.online 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] FatVegan@leminal.space 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How is this cool in any way.

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[–] blitzen@lemmy.ca 49 points 1 month ago

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

[–] rockandsock@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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. 🤔

[–] ChanchoManco@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Also why is Meta watching that footage?

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[–] JoeMontayna@lemmy.ml 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 27 points 1 month ago

Le facebook product is... le spying?

[–] HappyFrog@lemmy.blahaj.zone 26 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] ToTheGraveMyLove@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

How long until Meta starts blackmailing people with this shit?

[–] ZiggyTheZygote@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 month ago

Epstein 2.0

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 month ago

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

[–] anotherspinelessdem@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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

[–] nothx@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] peanuts4life@lemmy.blahaj.zone 20 points 1 month ago (7 children)

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.

[–] Broken@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 month ago

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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[–] original_reader@lemmy.zip 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

'I have nothing to hide."

/s

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[–] bahcodad@lemmy.ml 15 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Well that's what you get for spying on people. Duh

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[–] stylusmobilus@aussie.zone 15 points 1 month ago

These glasses and the people who wear them are disturbing.

[–] Aberration13@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago

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

[–] DataCrime@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 month ago

Who could have guessed…

[–] tracyspcy@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago

What a surprise

[–] Flyberius@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

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

[–] knee@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

[–] OrgunDonor@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

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[–] mrnobody@reddthat.com 10 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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

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[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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), especially in public.

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[–] Kubiac@discuss.tchncs.de 10 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] Willoughby@piefed.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] Numinous_Ylem@lemmy.world 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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.

[–] WhiteOakBayou@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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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[–] Sunsofold@lemmings.world 7 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] fox2263@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

We get to return to the verbiage “glasshole” right

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