Would you be surprised to find out that the facebook "smart" glasses have been outsourcing the video for review and processing to Nairobi?

[secretsloth@mastodon.art]

@futurebird yeah I absolutely agree and it makes me never want to leave the house because I hate it the idea of being secretly recorded. Like I understand big tech wanting to create a surveillance state because they're awful? But having been stalked, the idea makes me literally queasy. It could divulge my exact location to my stalker in real time at any point without my knowledge, something I have been very careful to avoid (I don't post my face ANYWHERE and haven't for close to 20 years).

[secretsloth@mastodon.art]

@futurebird and worse, this is a bigger nightmare for anyone in a similar situation who has a more recent/public online presence with their real name attached, which I'm betting is most people. As gross as it is for everyone, I'm actually horrified for the real world implications of folks who are trying not to be found, not just by law enforcement but by folks who have been looking for them for other reasons. it hurts my heart that we all have to be afraid again.

[braxa26@mindly.social]

@futurebird As a visual learner, this would be fabulous. And think of all the kids with similar minds who would be able to learn how to do sports (and other stuff, but that's my weakness) much more easily.

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@secretsloth

That sounds incredibly stressful.

The only thing I find any comfort in is this news that they need people to review the footage to make the damn things work proves that their scanning and searching and identification software isn't nearly as god-like as they want us to think it to be.

Processing video remains rather hard, expensive, but we act like it's a solved problem.

It's not.

[secretsloth@mastodon.art]

@futurebird yeah. I am a bit comforted by the fact that my old photos are yknow 20 years old. Mostly it's newer situations and others that I'm concerned for, all of this rushing of stuff made by *white men* that is not being vetted for safety and quickly proves dangerous for nonwhite folks, exes in general, gender nonconforming folks, women, basically anyone who has made an entitled person mad, too many groups to count. It's foreseeable. And keeps not being stopped. Or even delayed.

[i_give_u_worms@beige.party]

@futurebird @secretsloth

Nausea from Regressive Progress

[i_give_u_worms@beige.party]

@futurebird @secretsloth

I feel like what's going on here is they hate paying and training employees so much they are willing to abuse the customer

[joblakely@mastodon.social]

@futurebird @secretsloth

SOOOOOO much this.
I think it’s part patriarchy tech bro capitalism culture eliminating creative voices that aren’t seeking profit over the actual product and idea, and consumer happiness.
They don’t care about the end result at all.

[qurlyjoe@mstdn.social]

@futurebird
I wonder why “glassholes” got laughed out of the house a couple years ago but not this new crop? Metahole just doesn’t have a ring to it.

@5ciFiGirl @somafm

[complexmath@hachyderm.io]

@futurebird @secretsloth when AR started being a thing I thought “oh wow, airplane engine repair people could get an entire HUD for part status, last replacement time, and schematics when they look at a thing” and while it turned out that was wildly ambitious for the tech at the time, no one seems to even be trying to do things like that because surveillance, games, and porn make more money.

[ghostonthehalfshell@masto.ai]

@futurebird

Epstein eyewear

[jestbill@mastodon.world]

@futurebird @secretsloth This is actually an improvement!!
Twenty years ago, I had to deal with a customer service that was SAVING MONEY by hiring just any random high schooler.
Bad. Not only didn't understand the problem, but "solved" it by doing something random, "Thank you, sir", and hanging up.
Went through that at least three times before reaching the last actual person on staff. They looked at the log and started laughing.

[cubeofcheese@mstdn.social]

@lilithian @futurebird is it possible they can continue recording after taking them off? Where do you set your glasses down in a bedroom?
So is it possible some of these cases weren't even purposeful?

[futurebird@sauropods.win]

@cubeofcheese @lilithian

" is it possible they can continue recording after taking them off? "

Yes they outline one such case in the article I think.

[r343l@freeradical.zone]

@complexmath @futurebird @secretsloth That seems like a genuinely cool use of technology that is probably quite feasible to do WELL now and also likely would be appreciated by actual people in those jobs (easier than context switching to look at a maintenance log on some other screen or whatever). But also one that you REALLY can't use an LLM for because getting it wrong even a little could be disastrous.

[linuxandyarn@hachyderm.io]

@complexmath @futurebird @secretsloth That was why I was tempted to put a preorder on LaForge glasses. Of course, they turned out to be vaporware.

[alec@perkins.pub]

@complexmath @futurebird @secretsloth I remember this being a literal plot device in Michael Crichton’s AIRFRAME. It seemed so cool and obviously useful!

[hattifattener@wandering.shop]

@complexmath @futurebird @secretsloth I went to a VR-adjacent trade show like ... 20 years ago?... and aircraft maintenance AR was a thing a bunch of people were working towards. I don't know if it didn't pan out, or if it's old hat now, or what

Even without real lock-to-the-environment AR, a HUD with next steps and instructions seems like it should be super useful when your hands are full of tools

[hnapel@mastodon.social]

@futurebird

Mechanical turk.

[xarvos@outerheaven.club]

@futurebird@sauropods.win @lilithian@pagan.plus

they may save the video for later

this is litrrally black mirror plot <img class="not-responsive emoji" src="https://outerheaven.club/emoji/blobcat/blobcatgrimacing.png" title=":blobcatgrimacing:" />
(not that we haven't had enough black mirror irl already)