You know, it’s sad that we get this sort of deal. When I was kid, I wanted cool glasses that you see in movies where it could highlight people, see their conversations, translate in real time, see maps, etc.
Augmented Reality has so much potential as tools for everyone.
But now, as adult I know it’s just surveillance tools. Fuck corporations.
Its crazy cuz this would have never happened if they continued educating Gen Z/Alpha on computer basics like they did Millenials. But now kids in school don’t understand anything about computers because they only have ever used apps. I have a buddy that teaches a highschool computer elective and he spends his first class explaining files, folders, and basic computer functions.
Tin foil hat time: The ‘assumption’ that internet-natives like GenZ would pick up where millennials left off, was in fact a deliberate dereliction.
If it is, it is also a double-edged sword for them. A shortage of skilled workers drives up the cost of it. Even if they keep us old guys at our desks til we die there, we’re still going to.
Except they outsource that stuff to India/Philippines.
North Americans only need to be smart enough to consume.
Bad News, everyone!!!
It’s pretty easy to not get caught surveiling customers.
All you have to do is… Not surveil customers.
One decision we can be clear about—we are not building a central face database
… because of course we aren’t. We already have one and it’s AMAZING.
…the site is called “FaceBook”, though? And it has a database of, among other things, faces. I’m not sure who these guys think they are kidding.
No no no, it’s not a central database at all. It’s distributed globally across many geographic locales, nothing central about it. Lots of redundancies too, it’s available everywhere all of the time. :S
Or rather, “we” aren’t, but palantir is.
Try not being evil then if you’re mad about being caught.
“What? Evil? Not us! No, we’re just disappointed that the heavy marketing blitz to get kids to wear these while we definitely would not be taking secret pictures and vids has to be scrapped. ~For now.~” –Facebook execs probably
Code uncovered by journalists revealed that Meta quietly embedded facial recognition tech into its AI-enabled smart glasses
If that feature gets activated one day, will taking down and destroying someones Smart Glasses count as self-defence?
No.
Don’t like that answer? Push for laws.
No, but it would be fun to sue everyone with Smart Glasses since they have not your permission to film you.
Even before it does, I imagine there will be some grassroots shunning and banning in privately owned public spaces like last time.
So let me get this straight. They are not exposing it to consumers. Everyone is being explicit that it is NOT exposed to CONSUMERS. Doesn’t that leave it open to being exposed to non-consumer entities? Things like Meta internally and government entities are non-consumer entities. I believe other businesses could be construed as non-consumer entities as well. So they could easily NEVER expose this to the end users and still make bank selling the data to brokers, government agencies, or private surveillance companies like Palentier or Flock.
Cool cool cool… Good to know.
