Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.
Meta is adding a new safeguard to stop people from secretly recording others with its AI glasses. But the update comes as the company continues to expand how much personal data its AI products collect and use. Meta's AI glasses have a growing reputation as a creepy technology .
Key Takeaways
- The company hopes to change that opinion by announcing an update that will disable the camera if the LED light that indicates the glasses are recording has been tampered with.
Yet, even as Meta touts the new safeguard this week, the company is also pushing products and features that ask users to surrender more of their privacy to the company.
- However, Meta also admits that the move was necessary because some people had been using tape to cover the LED light, which had already forced Meta to adapt its tech to disable recording when the LED is blocked.
Determined, those same AI glasses creeps would then use "sophisticated efforts to modify or destroy the capture LED," Meta's announcement explains.
- Meta answers by promising, "You, and only you - unless you choose to share them."
Yet, Meta's privacy policy has explained that any image you share with Meta AI can be used to train its AI .
- These are hardly Meta's first scrapes with privacy violations or safety measures, either.
Arguably, Meta's reputation on privacy has been tainted for years after numerous leaks and lost lawsuits about its alleged lack of child safety measures and desire for growth at all costs .
- Case in point: On the same day it announced the Meta glasses' new safeguard, it shared that Meta AI can now use anyone's public Instagram photos to make AI images, unless you opt out .
The company hopes to change that opinion by announcing an update that will disable the camera if the LED light that indicates the glasses are recording has been tampered with. Yet, even as Meta touts the new safeguard this week, the company is also pushing products and features that ask users to surrender more of their privacy to the company.
Whether that's training its AI on your images , enabling AI features using your personal content unless you opt out, or exploring ways to continuously record or use biometric facial recognition , Meta's vision of the future seems to always depend on collecting more of your personal data. In its blog post about the new camera safety feature, the company pats itself on the back, noting that "no other kind of camera has done this and we're proud to lead the industry effort." However, Meta also admits that the move was necessary because some people had been using tape to cover the LED light, which had already forced Meta to adapt its tech to disable recording when the LED is blocked.
Determined, those same AI glasses creeps would then use "sophisticated efforts to modify or destroy the capture LED," Meta's announcement explains. In other words, Meta is confirming that some people who use AI glasses have hidden agendas - namely a desire to record situations or people ( often women ) without their consent. Despite this, the company is reportedly testing a prototype of AI glasses that would "continuously collect audio while taking photos every few seconds," sources recently told Financial Times .
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