The problem with those AI glasses isn’t the AI part of it, but the always-on cameras with that terrible, terrible company Facebook always watching.
Whoever wears those things in public will have the same problem those who tried wearing Google’s smartglasses experienced a few years back: people who recognize they’re being filmed against their will will get angry, demand that the gormless geek doff the cameras, then punches will be thrown if the geek doesn’t comply.
Smartglasses - particularly those powered by privacy-invading monopolies - are socially out of place. They’re not really desired or welcome anywhere. Even Google recognized this and pulled the plug on their smartglasses project, and Facebook will too if they have any common sense.
Google are literally re-entering the market as well.
Is the camera always on? My understanding is there is a bright LED (which Meta added voluntarily, by the way) any time it’s recording.
Basically I’m calling BS on you
It may not be on all the time, but the minute the wearer says, for example, “Hey Siri [or whateever Fuckerberg’s version of Siri is], please translate that menu in English”, then the damn thing starts recording - and possible flash a red light, if you say it does that - and you’re in the frame, you’ve already lost. Facebook has your mug on camera, whether you wanted it or not.
That’s my problem with these things: the whole idea of even using them implies that everybody around the wearer relinquishes their right to privacy by default, something I for one am totally not okay with.
If the wearer wants to submit to Facebook’s surveillance, it’s their problem. But those of us who care about not interacting with Facebook in any way, shape or form are dragged into the wearer’s choices and don’t have any say about it.
You trust Meta to not record without the LED being on?
That’s dangerous naïveté.
Never trust capitalists to do the right thing.
No they’re probably right: it’s probably not on all the time, simply because the battery usage would be too high. What I mean was that it’s a rogue camera you can’t escape if the operator of the camera, or more likely Facebook, decides to turn it on for some purpose or other. I didn’t express myself properly.
And it’s gonna get a lot worse when you’re in a room with dozens of people sporting those hateful surveillance things.
I’m not assuming it would be a constant video recording because yeah I agree about the battery concerns. Rather I’m concerned it would be intervalic photos and audio recordings, maybe based on certain contexts?
ie: mic picks up a new voice in the room, camera takes snapshot to identify the person and upload data to the cloud.
Yep, just like Windows Recall. They don’t need to overturn privacy laws to break e2ee if they just take a screenshot of your Signal chat instead.
That’s exactly my point: you can never tell when you’re going to be put under surveillance. And people generally aren’t comfortable around someone wearing one of those invasive recording devices - even if they’re only potentially invasive.
That’s why Google gave up on their own smartglasses project.
I’m sure it would be exceedingly difficult to put a blob of black paint or glue on that LED.
I’m sure nobody would do that so they could wear them without being harassed. Way too much work.
It has a sensor to ensure the light is working. You might be able to trick it by putting some sort of infrared lens, but admit it. Meta thought this one through.
I don’t think smart glasses are ready, but this is already a lot better than their last year model (which they didn’t even do a live demo for)
