More than 70 organizations, including the ACLU, EPIC, and Fight for the Future, say the AI smart glasses feature would endanger abuse victims, immigrants, and LGBTQ+ people.
  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Name Tag, as revealed in February by The New York Times, would work through the artificial intelligence assistant built into Meta’s smart glasses, allowing wearers to pull up information about people in their field of view. Engineers have reportedly been weighing two versions of the feature: one that would only identify people the wearer is already connected to on a Meta platform, and a broader version that could recognize anyone with a public account on a Meta service such as Instagram.

    Creeps will instantly use it to go to where women are and find their accounts.

    Not to mention any woman that has to work a customer facing job.

    This would suck for men too tho, it would suck for everyone.

    But it might be what it finally takes to get the dumb masses off Meta platforms. There’s so many other reasons anyways, but idiots just can’t delete their Instas

    • jaycifer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      In the first case the device would still have to identify people not connected to the wearer to determine if they are connected or not. That seems like it would make it much easier to bypass and tag strangers anyway.

    • pivot_root@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

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  • Octagon9561@lemmy.mlEnglish
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    2 months ago

    The main issue isn’t even the technology itself, it’s that it’s Meta and owned by the Zuck.

    I’m sure there are ways to engineer this so the data stays on device and use it for specific scientific purposes exclusively.

    • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      The main issue isn’t even the technology itself, it’s that it’s Meta and owned by the Zuck.

      There are a thousand corporations tripping over themselves to out-horrify the public.

      I’m sure there are ways to engineer this so the data stays on device and use it for specific scientific purposes exclusively.

      I’m sure there are but if you see one in public, how would you know? Best just to ban them all.

    • Dionysus@leminal.spaceEnglish
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      2 months ago

      There is absolutely.

      You’ll never appease the shareholders or maintain your quarterly growth that way… ^Trump is pushing to eliminate quarterly reports for public companies, so they may not need to care and can just be evil for the sake of it.^

      It’s funny how they enshittify it for consumers first, but now aiming spread enshitification to wall street so they can fuck those 401ks even harder.

      Capitalism baby!

    • LifeInMultipleChoice@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Sounds like you need to talk to your local government officials about having them banned in your area, otherwise you are going to spend a lot of time in jail/prison. Glasses didn’t take off when Google did them because the tech wasn’t there yet 10 years ago. Meta is launching theirs now, Apple will be launching multiple next year, which means Google may be launching them again depending on the success Apple and Meta see.

      As far as laws go in the U.S. It is generally accepted that if you leave your property, you can be recorded. Hence Ring doorbells, cameras in and outside every store, on the street lights, etc. I don’t care for it, but privacy (in public) doesn’t exist anymore.

      • artyom@piefed.socialEnglish
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        2 months ago

        them because the tech wasn’t there yet 10 years ago.

        That’s not true. They didn’t take off because they boiled the frog too fast. They were rejected by polite society. That society is gone.

    • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I saw some fucking idiot with these on at a show a few months ago and I had to exert a lot of control not to yank them off her face and stomp on them.

      Nobody wants to be recorded secretly. Especially not at a show. That’s a gross invasion of privacy - and, in fact, illegal in some jurisdictions (two-party consent laws for recordings).

      • moonshadow@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Less control next time please, dunno how old you are but that’s exactly the human immune response that rid us of Google Glass. Early beta testers consistently got rocked whenever they wore them outside and the project went nowhere. I’m too old now and don’t get out enough but pray the kids are up to rejecting round 2

  • buttwater [they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Love that my blob-no-thoughts co-workers wear theirs to work. Like, we’re doing already barely constitutional monitoring and entrapment of the online left, why are you documenting our work to third party vendors, bro?