Meta’s AI glasses have all sorts of alleged use cases. The real use case is the market of creeps and weirdos who film people out and about without their consent. And Meta knows for a fact this is t…
  • BlueMonday1984@awful.systemsEnglish
    7·
    17 hours ago

    Oh, boy, Rapist Glasses

    There’s a UK Parliament petition to “Introduce an immediate ban on the sale and promotion of smart glasses”. If you’re in the UK, you might want to sign it. [UK Parliament]

    Given Parliament’s track record, they’ll probably respond by banning glasses that don’t have cameras, but I still endorse this

  • minorkeys@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    40·
    2 days ago

    Metas way to get AI training data is these glasses, palantir is flock cameras, Google is their existing inventory of video from mapping the entire fucking world, Musk has Tesla vehicles, they all have a means to watch the world and feed it to AI. Many have user data from all our devices and our online behaviors that can extrapolate and deduce what reality is.

    We’re legit fucked if these companies continue to operate in private, secrecy, and zero enforced return of value for he public well-being.

  • wirebeads@lemmy.caEnglish
    54·
    2 days ago

    Zuckerfuck is absolute cancer, but the even sadder part is how many losers buy this shit. Shame.

  • Zephorah@discuss.onlineEnglish
    36·
    2 days ago

    Zuckerberg is creepy so this follows. We are talking about a guy who would walk around his startup office with a samurai sword pretending to chop his employees with it. And a guy who deliberately got Julius Caesar’s haircut. And a guy whose original version of Facebook was a platform on which college students could rate the attractiveness of female college students.

    • otacon239@lemmy.worldEnglish
      10·
      2 days ago

      The Social Network gives great insight into just how terrible and awkward he really is. Plus Jesse Eisenberg knocks it out of the park.

  • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.ukEnglish
    41·
    2 days ago

    We had to ban these at my workplace.

    They were already prohibited due to our existing mobile policies, but we had to especially ban them whenever someone brought them in.

      • HM King Charles III DG FD@feddit.ukEnglish
        5·
        24 hours ago

        Someone found the glasses charging. I don’t know the individual, I can’t even remember their name, and I’ve never interacted with them. As far as I am aware, it’s a simple manner of not allowing someone to have a camera strapped to their head when working.

        I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt, they were a foreign national who claimed they needed to use them for translation purposes. However, such an excuse can in theory be used by someone trying to commit espionage, so we cannot tolerate it. It was just recommended to their department to provide translated materials to help them grasp work-related terminology.

  • ZombieCyborgFromOuterSpace@piefed.caEnglish
    21·
    2 days ago

    I don’t condone violence but,…

    Actually, no, I do condone violence against these pricks. Zuck, Bezos, Musk & Co. deserve to be hung by an angry mob.

  • Mulligrubs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    2 days ago

    Zusk will later introduce an “off” feature for 10 bucks a month.

    (it will still record everything surreptitiously)

  • A Sharky Anthro@fedia.io
    15·
    2 days ago

    Ugh, this company is totally fucking creepy! If only there were a way to disrupt these glasses using readily available electronics…

    • WhoIzDisIz@lemmy.todayEnglish
      11·
      2 days ago

      There’s an Android app that will constantly scan for their Bluetooth signature in the background and alert you.

    • grue@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6·
      2 days ago

      I just bought new glasses and got an IR-blocking lens coating that’s supposed to thwart facial recognition from things like these and Flock cameras and whatnot. It’s not active disruption via electronics, but it is a countermeasure…