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0 pointsspiralk1y ago0 comments

Its certainly not altruism. Given that Facebook/Meta owns the largest user data collection systems, any advancement in AI ultimately strengthens their business model (which is still mostly collecting private user data, amassing large user datasets, and selling targeting ads).

There is a demo video that shows a user wearing a Quest VR headset and asks the AI "what do you see" and it interprets everything around it. Then, "what goes well with these shorts"... You can see where this is going. Wearing headsets with AIs monitoring everything the users see and collecting even more data is becoming normalized. Imagine the private data harvesting capabilities of the internet but anywhere in the physical world. People need not even choose to wear a Meta headset, simply passing a user with a Meta headset in public will be enough to have private data collected. This will be the inevitable result of vision models improvements integrated into mobile VR/AR headsets.

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warkdarrior1y ago· 3 in thread

That sounds fantastic. If they make the Meta headset easy to wear and somewhat fashionable (closer to eyeglass than to a motorcycle helmet), I'd take it everywhere and record everything. Give me a retrospective search and conferences/meetings will be so much easier (I am terrible with names).

meroes1y ago

I wouldn’t even say hi alone my name to someone wearing a Meta headset out in public. And if facial recognition becomes that common for wearers, most of the population is going to adorn something to prevent that. And if it’s at work, I’m not working there and I have to think many would agree. Coworkers don’t and wouldn’t tolerate coworkers taking videos or pictures of them.

sebastiennight1y ago

This is not how the overwhelming majority of the world works though.

> if facial recognition becomes that common for wearers, most of the population is going to adorn something to prevent that

"Most of the population" is going to be "the wearers".

> Coworkers don’t and wouldn’t tolerate coworkers taking videos or pictures of them.

Here is a fun experience you can try: just hit "record" on every single Teams or Meet meeting you're ever on (or just set recording as the default setting in the app).

See how many coworkers comment on it, let alone protest.

I can tell you from experience (of having been in thousands of hours of recorded meetings in the last 3 years) that the answer is zero.

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talldayo1y ago

Of course, no Hacker News thread is complete without the "I would never shake hands with an Android user" guy who just has to virtue signal.

> And if facial recognition becomes that common for wearers, most of the population is going to adorn something to prevent that

My brother in Christ, you sincerely underestimate how much "most of the population" gives a shit. Most people are being tracked by Google Maps or FindMy, are triangulated with cell towers that know their exact coordinates, and willingly use social media that profiles them individually. The population doesn't even try in the slightest to resist any of it.

goatlover1y ago

That's very dystopian. It's bad enough having cameras everywhere now. I never opted in to being recorded.

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