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Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation

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Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation

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Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation

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Anybody can 'launch' a 'startup'. Alway-on recording has been around since the 60s. 'Smart' glasses? Har. Guess they never heard of 'glassholes'.
Won't be leaving the house if everyone starts using them haha
My crowbar of justice is ready to be liberally applied
Being a dropout doesn’t make you special
Everything has already been invented. So we get this shit to invade our lives and ruin the last little bit of anything good.
FUCK CAPITALISM.
Tl;dr two over privileged teenage psychopaths stole a stupid idea from Meta/google that was hated by many and are going to make it worse by going all-in on the reasons people hate them.
Let's get these guys some money!!!
Fuck these talentless twerps.
- I mean they are a bunch of things but I wouldn’t call them talentless.
  
  I would. They're making an entirely unoriginal product with an entirely unoriginal sales pitch and, presumably, an unoriginal surveillance-based business model.
Yes, the problem I'm having is too much privacy from tech-bro douchebags, how did they know?
Slashdot comments hating hard on this, good!
Its absolutely fuckwittery to want this trash.
What else would you expect from a bunch of dropouts ?
Is there anything whatsoever a privacy-minded person can do about something like this, in terms of personal protection?
- Wait 'til they come out (if ever), figure out the tech, make/buy a detector, pull your club out ur backpack ...
- I remember when Google glass came out. I was living in New York, and almost every single establishment banned them nearly immediately. You wouldn’t be allowed in if you were wearing them, and if anyone saw you put them on, you get kicked out. No questions.
  This happened in a lot of places, as I recall.
  
  Google Glass purposefully made it obvious what they were. The newer glasses without cameras from Meta et al basically look like regular glasses if you can't see the waveguide in the lenses.
  
  That would be nice, but outside of major cities, I can't see that happening.
  I may just have to start wearing a hoodie and mask everywhere. I really, really don't like the idea of these glasses.
- There's a big social stigma against this. Every other version of this that has come out has failed due to the combination of expense and stigma. I suspect this is nothing to worry about.
  Very few people are going to pay hundreds of dollars to be socially isolated. Kill the market, kill the device.
- “The AI listens to every conversation you have and uses that knowledge to tell you what to say … kinda like IRL Cluely,” Ardayfio told TechCrunch, referring to the startup that claims to help users “cheat” on everything from job interviews to school exams.
  “If somebody says a complex word or asks you a question, like, ‘What’s 37 to the third power?’ or something like that, then it’ll pop up on the glasses,” Ardayfio added.
  The product sounds like just another shitty AI assistant but on your face. The problem might fix itself when only 5 idiots buy them.
- Depends on whether you live in the US or EU I guess.
- Look into microphone jammers
- Maybe those hoodies that fuck with camera sensors so they can't take photos of your face?
Illegal in the EU btw.
- Yet another reason I should flee the US.
  
  Illinois requires two party consent for recording in-person conversations at least.
Remember how cell phones spread, and even people in poor countries with limited infrastructure?
This will be the same or worse. No, you won't be able to avoid being recorded by other people. This will change in the future, if it ever does, only when a large majority understand how the devices are being abused by power to control us and keep us enslaved. But, even upon that realization, if people find enough value in using the tech, they'll put up with being enslaved if they're still comfortable enough. It's a balance, and power knows it. They're working out the details as they go.
This is what's coming. My suggestion is don't have kids.
- What is the value of recording everything?
  
  To feed the data centers with yummy personal data. No dataset is to big, no picture of the side of someone's arm is too pointless. We must consume all data
  
  FOMO. Every experience is recorded just in case you (or really the government) might ever realize it was missed. Just in case it ever becomes interesting.
  
  Tremendous value in concentration of money and power in the hands of the superior few. Know your place, peasant.
  
  I record all my phone calls. It allows me to pretend not to forget all the names, dates, places and other important details we just talked about with the other person as soon as the call ends.
Now would be the time for a scramble suit startup.

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