top 50 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] 170 points 7 months ago (5 children)

Frankly humanity does not need this invention one bit.

It may have legitmately sounded interesting and futuristic to some people a decade ago, but with the way tech companies are trending this type of tech will become an absolute surveillance and privacy nightmare. I mean it aleady is really, but it will get so so much worse.

Regulate and legislate these into oblivion. At the very least tech companies need to be punished financially for trying to speed run dystopia but I fear we're already sliding down that slope and it's too late

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 45 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Frankly humanity does not need this invention one bit.

    Yah. Unfortunately, we've got it though. :( :( :(

    People I know, some friends, they are completely oblivious to how much it will surveillance them. Or how much Meta already does, in other ways. "I don't care, I'm not doing anything wrong".

    Constant surveillance erodes a society. It erodes democracy.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [+] 109 points 7 months ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (10 children)
  • [–] 52 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    being sent to offshore contractors for data labeling, a widely-used preprocessing step in training new AI models in which human contractors are asked to review and annotate footage.

    From another article I read about this, seems like it involves a lot of drawing precise boxes around people and objects, stuff like that. Terminators gotta learn their sex moves from somewhere.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago

    In a certain nihilistic dreadful sense it's hilarious how these AI advancements are built on the backs of exploitative manual labor. On the surface the AI models are so utterly impressive at how "smart" and advanced the tech appears to be, but the truth of it is just slave labor building a catalog of labeled data sourced from mass surveillance. The aliens should really intervene soon, before we build something that can threaten them...

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 23 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Read the article??

    “You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work,” the employee said. “You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 89 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    Yet another surveilance tool marketed as a cool tech gadget.

  • source
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    I remember when cool tech gadgets were cool and not undisguised spy tools.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 75 points 7 months ago

    The absolute tone-deafness of not seeing that meta seeing the things is the disturbing part.

  • source
  • [–] 47 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    So you're telling me that the creepy motherfuckers who would wear something like this around in public do creepy things?

    Never would have guessed that. 🤔

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 47 points 7 months ago (4 children)

    It really doesn't matter if facial recognition is enabled or not today, it can always be done later on. This is a huge invasion of privacy.

  • source
  • hideshow 4 child comments
  • [–] 46 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    Marky Z is watching you pee and calling it "streaming."

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 42 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    How long until Meta starts blackmailing people with this shit?

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 38 points 7 months ago

    Le facebook product is... le spying?

  • source
  • [–] 37 points 7 months ago (1 child)
    load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 31 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    Well that's what you get for spying on people. Duh

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 30 points 7 months ago (7 children)

    God I wish they'd stop putting cameras in these and just make a nice pair of prescription glasses with good integrated headphones, a heads of display, and some basic touch controls on the stem.

    I would genuinely enjoy this for easy listening and maps.

  • source
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 11 points 7 months ago

    Right? Make a product that a majority of people could find useful and not have any backlash at all...but then again, they've never been a product company. They've always been a personal information broker.

  • source
  • parent
  • load more comments (6 replies)
    [–] 22 points 7 months ago

    Who could have guessed…

  • source
  • [–] 22 points 7 months ago

    These glasses and the people who wear them are disturbing.

  • source
  • [–] 21 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    'I have nothing to hide."

    /s

  • source
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 19 points 7 months ago

    I'm not surprised they are spying and I'm not surprised that the type of person to buy these things would be doing disturbing shit

  • source
  • [–] 18 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Orwell got it wrong with the wall mounted screens - 'they' want us to wear the screens. What was that album title? 'If you accept this,your kids are next., ' Can't remember which band

  • source
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • load more comments (4 replies)
    [–] 18 points 7 months ago (11 children)

    One could make a decent bit of $ on "I do not consent" knitted balaclavas on Etsy.

  • source
  • hideshow 11 child comments
  • [–] 19 points 7 months ago (9 children)

    Dont they make glasses that blind cameras with infrared to obscure facial recognition? Im thinking a whole line of accessories (necklaces, earings, hats, etc) that fuck up these glasses ability to record you without consent. Not sure how technically feasible that all is but would love to see something like it to counteract these.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
  • load more comments (1 reply)
    [–] 17 points 7 months ago

    Ahh yes, another reason mark zuckerberg needs to get luigi'd

  • source
  • [–] 16 points 7 months ago

    What a surprise

  • source
  • [–] 14 points 7 months ago

    I don't know what's worse. Meta admitting to spy and nothing happens or the dumb people still buying their crap and using their services.

  • source
  • [–] 13 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    Kathryn Bigelow's most under-rated film is almost upon us....just 30 years later than we thought.

    Also...if you haven't seen that movie...go watch it. It's low-key one of her best.

  • source
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • load more comments (3 replies)
    [–] 11 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

    But this is not the problem but a symptom. Of you having no right to privacy (and if, it can be overwritten by some ToS).

  • source
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • load more comments (2 replies)
    [–] 9 points 7 months ago (5 children)

    Oh man! A friend just sent me this earlier today, I completely forgot to sign, but seeing this reminded me! Sharing the love.

    https://c.org/BVqdM4SGS2

  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • load more comments (5 replies)
    [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    We get to return to the verbiage “glasshole” right

  • source
  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Now I'm chuckling at the thought that the view from these glasses is likely to be used for training AI, so you could have a bit of fun just aiming them at the most horrifying but legal porn you can find and plonk them down aimed at the screen while you go do other stuff.

  • source
  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago

    Wow, what an admission. Peeping META?

  • source
  • load more comments
    view more: next ›