"I Hate This Viscerally": People Are REALLY Mad at These AI Glasses That Record Everything Constantly
"I Hate This Viscerally": People Are REALLY Mad at These AI Glasses That Record Everything Constantly
This is a very interesting article. We’re walking right into the very dystopia that so many sci-fi authors repeatedly have warned us about. They were warnings, not a playbook.
What distinguishes a panopticon isn't merely inescapable surveillance, but the fact that you don't know when you're being watched. You simply have to live with the unbearable uncertainty that, at any moment, you could be.
Whether people realize it or not, we already live in a panopticon. Not only are there camera everywhere - on buildings, businesses, homes, streets, phones, cars, etc - but there are other sensors and mechanisms tracking things like your movement, activity, and heart rate.
…despite a growing body of research suggesting that relying on AI models leads to critical thinking skills atrophying.
There was a novel that predicted this decades ago. The main character was so reliant on his AR goggles that when they were stolen in a mugging he was nearly catatonic until his friends got it back.
This is the world we are heading toward, and I don’t know what we can possibly do at this point to minimize the harm to both our environment and our species. The worst-case dystopia seems more and more inevitable by the day.
Edit: The novel was Accelerando, by Charles Stross
Companies need to stop building the torment nexus
We need to stop building the companies
I work for a company that has decided that they want to move forward with a device that will emit a frequency that allows them to track individual cell phones which they plan to use to target people with ads.
This is a hotel that will know where all their guests are at all times and will use it to tell them what to do.
No need for special equipment, when it is possible using wifi see this article for example.
Sliders, the 90s sci-fi TV show had an episode that explored similar themes with VR. Also the 2020 indie adventure game Virtua Verse also has similar VR themes dominating people's perceptions of reality to the point that some people spend their whole lives in love a robot that looks like a beautiful person when you have your headset on.
So transformative will it prove to the human brain, the twenty-something-year-old inventors promise, that wearers will soon be not just thinking, but "vibe thinking."
End this. Go down to the Titanic, please.
One way trip.
Who would have thought that people don’t want to be recorded without their knowledge or consent?
This would be a huge setback to anyone even remotely concerned about privacy.
Yeah, this is understandable but like, where were these people who are up in arms two decades ago? The ship has sailed. Walk around in any store, mall, shopping center, urban area... But no, all those recording devices are to keep me "safe". But glasses, now that's too far.
Who would have thought that people wouldn't want to be surveilled?? What the fuck?? Why???
Because they thought everyone knew they are already doing that.
I mean, we pay hundreds of monies every 2-4 years for the privilege of carrying the latest version of a device that does most of this already.
Greed and sadism.
Genuinely, every person who participated in creating this should be taken out to an island and dumped there, to be forgotten about.
This is vile.
Record Everything Constantly
Which camera glasses have all-day battery life? 🤔
So I know what to look for in the future for people to avoid, the glasses apparently look like this:
And putting Ray Ban on the "never buy a fucking thing from" list.
You should go up the chain and put the parent company of the parent company and all the related properties there
Ray Ban's parent company is going to have AI glasses from all of the companies they own. I was boycotting Ray Ban up until I learned that it's really fucking difficult to find prescription sunglasses big enough for my giant head that can accommodate my very strong prescription and Ray Ban had the only pair that I could find.
I'm going to refuse to talk to people unless they take them off and shut them down first.
I won't even give them the option to take them off. If I see someone wearing them I had intended to interact with, I'll keep on walking by and ignore the person.
Big Brother strapped to your fucking face.
Id quite like a HUD instead of a smart phone.
Way to sweaty.
As someone whose taught a fair number of undergrad classes, my nightmare scenario is a student showing up to an exam wearing one of these fucking things. When I tell them to take the damn things off, they then might protest saying they have prescription lenses and that they're the only way they can take the exam.
Can't it just be in the requirement of the exam? If they have connected glasses, they have to remove them for the duration of the exam and use them only after leaving the room. If they are spotted with them, they get disqualified instantly?
Edit: IMHO the accessibility argument would not stand for a written exam as those glasses are often used to transcribe audio. If it's written there is nothing to transcribe thus is not required. Those glasses are also more expensive than the non connected one so economically speaking if they can afford these glasses, they sure can afford the non connected ones. If they don't have a pair of non connected glasses they have to plan ahead of the exam which typically happens weeks if not months after the beginning of the semester so it's on them to plan accordingly.
TL;DR: forbid them in school ToS.
imagine passing everything you see in life to openai api
worse, meta ai api
The sunglasses we really need:
I remember this Black Mirror episode! Dudes wife was banging someone else and he gets wicked drunk crashes his car and replays the memory over and over again for years. Good Times! 🫠
"AI-powered". That alone should turn everyone off
This is worse than a prison. In a prison the prisoners cells are not normally under video surveillance unless the prisoner was super high risk for something.
Even Epstein, a true high risk prisoner, didn't have cameras inside his cell, and he was allegedly on suicide watch when he was murdered by Trump's goons to try to cover up his pedo shit.
Are there glasses that scrambles other people's cameras that the rest of us could wear?
I came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass.... And I'm all out of bubblegum.
I mean we could wear IR emitors. I imagine glasses with those or hyper reflective parts (like hi-vis vest) would both work to really mess up camera footage.
Cool idea. Also, maybe create a new style in response by making rave clothing for everyday wear.
If most people start doing this it might work. Until then, you'll just be "That guy"
Makes me paranoid now to go out.
I've been like that for many, many years.
My neighbor has several security cameras in front, covering the parking lot, the sidewalk in front of the building, and the unit entry doors. We live in apartments. Our doors are clustered in the same area, so anything that can see his door can also see my door and our other neighbors' doors.
I absolutely hate it. I can't even throw the goddamn trash out without feeling watched.
Invasion of the privacy snatchers.
Who would buy them in first place
Not the good guys.
My boss, he owns a pair and is trying to convince our chief operations manager to get pairs for the whole department so we can take pictures of our work.
We already get a bonus on our pay stubs for having our phones available so we all find this dumb.
That's why I will wait until buying them.
Acceptable for the blind only
All this talk about these glasses that dont actually exist yet just boosts the value of the company so the founders can cash out. Its more marketing than product. I dont care if someone wants to walk around recording everything they see and hear they can enjoy their phone and glasses running out of battery in an hour and getting $1000 in api fees.
Are you kidding me? I saw my coworker wearing these in a Zoom meeting a few weeks ago
You saw your coworker wearing unreleased Halo glasses last week? Wow they are very ahead of the trends.
Camera glasses like this have existed for like a decade. Modern ones can probably run for a full work day if all they do is record.
Uh no. I'll use the new Meta glasses as a comparison, which have up to 4 hours battery life and dont even record 24/7 and are still more bulky than the glasses in this article (the glasses in this article arent real but still). The meta glasses dont constantly run AI like the glasses in this article either. There are no glasses that constantly record and run AI on those recordings that run for more than a few hours.
People are getting mad as fuck over a concept from two grad students and their outrage is being farmed so they can sell their startup at a higher price.
Oh wow! A whole new generation of "glassholes" coming up!
Google Glass at least had the indicator light, and was relatively obvious - this is worse.