contracted workers at a Kenya-based company called Sama. These workers are data annotators who are tasked with reviewing footage captured from the camera on the glasses and labeling it to help AI systems get better at identifying what they see
Sama is the same company that classified outputs and training material for openai.
An ant doesn’t care that you’re watching it until you try to step on it. Why do you think that these bug people would care until it’s too late?
I’m shocked!
Hey they’re not sposedta do that
sensitive and personal footage captured by the devices—including people going to the bathroom, getting dressed, and having sex—is being reviewed
I wanna know… Or maybe I don’t… Who is it that sees someone wear these glasses and decides that they wanna f— them WITH THE GLASSES ON.
Don’t get me wrong, I wear (normal) glasses and I like the way I look, but how can THESE glasses be anything but a major turn off?
Who watches the watchers?
Meta apparently
What’s with the weird comma placement in the, title?
I know its not you, OP
You mean the “, too”? That’s how it’s supposed to be written. People often don’t do it that way, but that’s how it’s correctly used, and few have accused us anglophones, as a whole, of really understanding how to use our own damn language. It’s the same with “, but”, also, and “, also”, also.
I’m not sure they still teach the FANBOYS system - at least not as I learned it: a “use this, not that” prescription for tightening sentence structure.
A quick DuckDuckGo search suggests they are now, and perhaps always have been, used in conjunction with commas. Which, frankly, makes my skin crawl.
“She was tired, and she needed to eat.”
“It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times.”
Evil. Great Evil.
Perhaps I’m caviling against flabby sentences rather than flawed punctuation but I maintain that the construction reliably signals the former.
I’m also an anglophone, but this seems not quite right to me. There’s no real need to insert a comma in that sentence, as there’s no real need to pause for clarity or pacing.
“Nah it’s fine, big companies would never do such a thing. Besides they’re beholden to the governments.”
Right.
I thought smart glasses could be kind of neat, but no way in hell would I get a pair from Meta.
A set of FOSS smart glasses powered entirely by local hardware and software that you own and control? That would be kind of neat.
Anything connected to and under the control of a big corporation, though … miss me with that shit.
Call me conservative but I think that would still suck. A society where everyone has a camera on their nose pointing at you sounds absolutely dreadful.
Eh, you’re already on a dozen cameras every time you go outside. Security cameras, state surveillance cameras, doorbell cameras, cameras all over every modern car… What’s a few more?
Ah yes. The fallacy of you’re already being exploited so what’s one more time?
Really, though – is that not true?
There is already no expectation of privacy and anonymity anymore. Cameras are already everywhere, more and more of them interconnected and tracking your every step. If you want privacy and anonymity outside of your own home, you need to be wearing a mask, and maybe taking measures to disguise your gait and physical proportions as well. Having slightly more or slightly fewer cameras out there isn’t going to change that whatsoever.
No I don‘t because I don‘t live in an Orwellian hellhole (yet) like most people seem to do these days. Even if I did your comment is an admission of absolute capitulation. What a sad worldview.
Doomism is not the solution
Okay, then. I wish you the very best of luck in destroying every camera you see. Hopefully you’re wearing a mask and unidentifying clothes every time you go out.
If you see a ring door bell, they aren’t hard to kick or rip off the wall.
Actually I’m going to make some informative stickers that happen to cover the camera and sensor of those things. I’ll post them when they’re up.
If you see a ring door bell, they aren’t hard to kick or rip off the wall.
It is a bit more difficult, however, to do that without being caught, since they’ll probably have camera footage of you doing it.
Cops don’t track people down for porch pirating. They aren’t gonna look for a person in a mask kicking doorbells.
calls for vandalism of personal property. not good.
Lmk, I could def use them. I work in ppls houses in the US. I swear almost half the houses have cameras, 90% ring. It’s insane.
Check out Brilliant Labs.
Just gotta wait for people to write custom firmware for these things, it’s cool hardware but yeah I’m not going to run a Facebook OS on my own hardware
I won’t even use my 3d headset that they bought from oculus. it just sits there.
SteamFrame my beloved
We literally have no idea when that’s coming out…
I wish I can look back at my entire day and see what I did. (It will mostly just be computer, kitchen and bathroom only, but still a cool idea)I changed my mind
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Entire_History_of_You
You’ll maybe reevaluate that position after watching this episode of Black Mirror.
Endlessly torturing yourself over minute details throughout each day doesn’t sound fun or healthy to me.
Well… Fuck
I’m glad I have the day off tomorrow cause now I need to process some stuff…
I’ve heard good things about the show, but that was my first episode I watched. Are they all this good?
For the first few seasons, yeah!
When Netflix bought the rights there was a shift to Americanisation of everything and it started to go downhill but there’s still some decent episodes from that period as well. But the best episodes are the oldest ones.
Who needs to video their day to torture thenselves with minute details throughout each day, your brain can pull that info up any time it is inconvenient to you and run through it for hours
I usually use my memory when I want to look back on my entire day and know what I did.
Right? Such a great invention. Quality is not always great but huge storage capacity and amazing privacy protections. And its free!
When I look at my game recordings, I can see my mistakes/places to improve.
If I see the steam overlay saying 150 minutes game time, its like “eh. Its long, but I had fun”. But if I see an over 2 hour clip of me not leaving my chair, that will make a bigger impact, reminding me how little I do every day
Or you can just use your common sense and save yourself the cost of this ugly piece of junk.
People tend to avoid you less if you don’t look like a sneaky perv, so that’s another bonus.
Plus, you’ll not be funding Meta and you’ll have one less piece of rubbish in a drawer somewhere that needs recycling after one month of use.
I’m NEVER buying a Meta product. I’m just saying camera glasses is a cool idea. Shame that its tied being a terrible company.
And if you noticed, I only mentioned using it in my own home. Never out in public.
Enhance your calm, I agree with you.
It’s one of those things that sounds great in sci-fi, like flying cars, until you realise that the world is full of awful people that immediately repurpose any new tech for filthy lucre / inflicting suffering / power grabbing.
How about we ban hidden cameras in public?
That would hit undercover and investigating journalism hard
True, damnit.
Careful with this. Some French journalists (Cash Investigation) got some nice sequences by using hidden cameras, and I guess from the ads that the camera is not hidden, just tiny… I hate tese glasses with guts as they showed in one ad how people can hate it and thought let’s fucking send it
This can’t possibly be a surprise to people?
I think some don’t think of the ramifications. Some willingly let Google follow them around and save their location
Colour ME shocked
they don’t care, and that’s the point.
Without the Meta layer (which you can just not install), the basic smart RayBans are actually pretty nice. The audio is pretty good and it works with any other assistant you may have configured. I wish they had a version without the camera.
