Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation
Harvard dropouts to launch 'always on' AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation | TechCrunch
Is there anything whatsoever a privacy-minded person can do about something like this, in terms of personal protection?
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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.
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.
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.
Wait 'til they come out (if ever), figure out the tech, make/buy a detector, pull your club out ur backpack ...
Look into microphone jammers
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Maybe those hoodies that fuck with camera sensors so they can't take photos of your face?
Yes an infrared hoodie at night to prevent cameras in night mode to catch your face or something like this to fuck with AI detection
Let's fight ai with ai! As in, opencv-driven turrets :)
Yes, the problem I'm having is too much privacy from tech-bro douchebags, how did they know?
My crowbar of justice is ready to be liberally applied
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Being a dropout doesn’t make you special
Tell that to silicon valley, its a marketing bit now. Being "Too cool for school" is part of the tech startup playbook.
Anybody can 'launch' a 'startup'. Alway-on recording has been around since the 60s. 'Smart' glasses? Har. Guess they never heard of 'glassholes'.
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.
That's not true, but this kind of devices has been subject to extensive thought experiments in science fiction and philosophy and found lacking actual use.
It's like a watch implant. You need to know time, looking at tower clocks and wall clocks isn't too convenient. Wrist watches and in general portable watches were a thing of beauty, but also quite useful for military commanders, sailors and pilots. But this progression doesn't lead you to implanting a watch into your hand, so that you'd always have it.
Similarly, this progression doesn't lead humanity to needing such devices, or honestly much of modern computing. It's just a personal computer. Even smartphones are honestly a less than convenient form factor, approaching minimal usable size.
All this is just a way to spend resources in some other way than actually building a unified humanity with access to good medicine, education, connectivity, food, political and labor rights. That's not even because those powerful people are evil, - I think it's more because doing anything real with such implications can get you killed. Even a supposed rich psychopath isn't usually evil, doing a good thing weighs about as much as doing a bad thing with the same amount of resources for them. We live in a time when those resources are actually present in the world, - 100 years ago this wasn't yet true. Which makes improving anything for real a dangerous endeavor, because every such improvement destroys someone else's base.
A bit like a capitalist version of late USSR's deadlocks.
Won't be leaving the house if everyone starts using them haha
Slashdot comments hating hard on this, good!
Its absolutely fuckwittery to want this trash.
I'm starting to think a lot of these college people don't even attempt to solve problems that face the working class.
They just come up with more bullshit for us to waste our money on.
“a lot of these college people” 🙄
What else would you expect from a bunch of dropouts ?
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
Tremendous value in concentration of money and power in the hands of the superior few. Know your place, peasant.
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.
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.
Oh, it will join that very successful startup that was doing a pin that did something similar. It had AI in the name, I bet it does great and the product is very successful
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.