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Users of Meta's AI smart glasses in Europe may be unknowingly sharing intimate video and sensitive financial information with moderators outside of the bloc, according to a report from Sweden's Svenska Dagbladet released last week. Employees in Kenya doing AI "annotation" told the journalists that they've seen people nude, using the toilet and engaging in sexual activity, along with credit card numbers and other sensitive information.

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[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 140 points 5 days ago (5 children)

lol what kind of weird nerd is wearing smart glasses while having sex lmao

imagine you're over at some dudes house, about to get dicked down, and he comes out with nothing but these big fat blinking glasses on

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 73 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I assume it's people making (hopefully consensual) POV videos.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 41 points 5 days ago (3 children)

I know why they’re doing it. I just think it’s something only a doofus would do.

[–] zewm@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago

Or someone making OF content for example.

[–] drmoose@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

You think only a doofus would make POV sextape with their partner?

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

with these, absolutely

[–] Honytawk@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 4 days ago

Only a doofus would buy these glasses.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 2 points 4 days ago

I think only a doofus would spend money on smart glasses from facebook

[–] R00bot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 5 days ago

Agreed 👍

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I feel like people using these glasses, instead of a good camera setup WHICH CAN COST LESS, which look more incognito, are likely not doing it consensually...

[–] Landless2029@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It doesn't even need to be fancy or expensive

[–] 87Six@lemmy.zip 1 points 3 days ago
[–] skrlet13@feddit.cl 10 points 5 days ago

Yea, it sounds more confortable than wearing just a camera tied to yourself. POV porn is popular afaik

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 17 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Believe it or not but not all sex starts with walking into the bahtroom, closing the door, disrobing, and hopping under the covers.

And while it likely applies less to the folk with camera glasses: If your vision is poor enough, it is always a tradeoff between them getting in the way and constantly squinting at your partner.

[–] TALL421@lemmy.world 24 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Why do you have blankets in your bathroom

[–] Canconda@lemmy.ca 14 points 5 days ago (2 children)

No it's the "Baht Room". Like you've been Baht. You need to be punished. *wtsh *wtsh

[–] EdgeOfDistraction@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Let me gobble you up like a Türkiye

[–] NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

Exactly. This obviously wasn't a brain fart + typo.

The kink shaming of some people.

[–] Luminous5481@anarchist.nexus 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

omg can I just make fun of techbros wearing Facebook smart glasses without everyone doing an 18-point analysis on it?

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[–] imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 4 days ago

According to recent events, some fucked up people are willing to be filmed like this. Here's link to the video if anyone is interested.

[–] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

I hate making out wearing glasses. That said, it is a porn category 🤷‍♂️

[–] Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 8 points 5 days ago

Glasses are like lingerie: They’re not for during, but before

Really? I think it's way more natural than wearing a go pro.

Bedroom is a very reasonable realm for smart glasses if they aren't connected to the internet and are used for local recording.

The really weird part is wearing them in public and either recording people without their consent or even giving the clear impression of recording people without their consent. Wearing smart glasses in a public place is just an asshole move.

[–] OldQWERTYbastard@lemmy.world 59 points 5 days ago

Reading this headline all I can think is "Are y'all really surprised?"

[–] decapitae@sh.itjust.works 46 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Why um, why do "smart" glasses have moderators? 🤔 Am I too far 'offline' to be asking? 😬

[–] InternetCitizen2@lemmy.world 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Am I too far 'offline' to be asking?

This is surveillance phobic... and I'm down for it

[–] decapitae@sh.itjust.works 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

It may be time to train some llms to be anti llms... 🤔

[–] surewhynotlem@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (2 children)

AI training. They have the tag the videos for model consumption.

[–] decapitae@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

Egads! AI - the new asbestos. They're putting it in everything! B🤦

[–] Patrikvo@lemmy.zip 1 points 4 days ago (2 children)

So, hypothetical, if I bought these, put a spare laptop in a closed, filled with the worst shock movies from the internet, and set these glasses so that they continuesly watch these videos. Would that be against the EULA?

[–] Rodancoci@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

You'd just be ruining a minimum wage worker's day and possibly traumatizing them. They typically outsource content annotation/moderation so no one important at Meta would be affected.

The better course of action is to continue to ridicule anyone you meet wearing these poorly-disguised surveillance instruments and raise awareness among your peers.

[–] Wispy2891@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

you're punishing those poor guys that are doing the job for $10/month. zucc doesn't care at all as they are already giving ptsd to thousands of moderators tasked of watching the reported gore videos

[–] merdaverse@lemmy.zip 5 points 4 days ago

Sex while a corporation has access to your footage sounds like a kink for libertarians

[–] recked_wralph@lemmy.world 23 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I know that bandwidth isn’t hardly the finite resource that it used to be, but I still can’t get over how amazingly wasteful it is to continuously stream live video halfway around the world just so you can… ask your glasses to describe what’s in front of you?

[–] MrsDoyle@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

It must be incredibly useful for blind people, but for everyone else it's a pure wank.

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 points 4 days ago

POV wanks too, huh

[–] Lydon_Feen@lemmy.world 22 points 5 days ago

I mean... If you can't trust underpaid workers in Kenya's sense of privacy, who can you trust?

[–] devolution@lemmy.world 16 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (2 children)

Dicking down Riley Reid. Meta style.

Or being dicked down by Johnny Sins.

The glasses have potential. But anything with Zuck I don't trust. (I have to be inclusive here)

[–] Widdershins@lemmy.world 12 points 5 days ago (1 children)

All Johnny Sins needs is a GoPro and a suction cup.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 days ago

I've already seen plenty of POV porn where the guy has two free hands, so I'm sure it's a gopro and head strap. Which I'm sure looks ridiculously goofy for anyone else in the room.

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[–] MushuChupacabra@piefed.world 13 points 5 days ago

Nice to know that when you're standing at the urinal, some schmuck at Meta has seen your hog.

[–] dil@piefed.zip 7 points 5 days ago

Some idiots be sharing nsfw stuff when asked to upload stuff for the ai companies, they have hella warnings telling you that isnt the kind of content they want lol

[–] saltesc@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

I don't think I could get off if my partner was wearing these hideous things.

Or anyone else in the room for that matter.

[–] SLVRDRGN@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago

I won't have sex unless my partner is holding one of these

[–] MagicShel@lemmy.zip 5 points 5 days ago

I always make sure to tell my audience to remove any smart glasses. It's just creepy doing it in front of them otherwise.

[–] TronBronson@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago
[–] goatinspace@feddit.org 4 points 5 days ago
[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Any camera/audio device with a wireless connection in your home is recording and storing your intimate moments.

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