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Meta is under pressure to explain why it cancelled a major contract with a company it was using to train AI, shortly after some of its Kenya-based workers alleged they had to view graphic content captured by Meta smart glasses.

In February, workers at the company, Sama, told two Swedish newspapers they had witnessed glasses users going to the toilet, and having sex.

Less than two months later, Meta ended its contract with Sama, which Sama said would result in 1,108 workers being made redundant.

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[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 31 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

What kind of idiot wears meta glasses?

Furthermore, what kind of idiot wears meta glasses while peeing or having sex?

[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago)

Predators. Case in point: ICE

[–] KelvarCherry@piefed.blahaj.zone 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

What kind of idiot? A bunch of morons on TikTok who make content either harassing strangers and setting people up for legal and social issues, or who post creep shots of women for their TikTok baby followers.

[–] wonderingwanderer@sopuli.xyz 2 points 7 hours ago

Well hopefully they all get blackmailed by a group of recently-laid-off Kenyans.

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 19 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I'm banned from the Technology community, so I couldn't post the updated, easier-to-parse headline there:

Meta in row after workers who say they saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs

[–] WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

really this is the better version??

[–] AmidFuror@fedia.io 1 points 13 hours ago

It's also awkward, but it explains right away what happened and doesn't use the ambiguous "smart glasses films."

[–] girlfreddy@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 day ago

Thanks. I've updated it now.

[–] bunkyprewster@startrek.website 10 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I would have thought they'd take their glasses off.

[–] Babalugats@feddit.uk 13 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

To take a shit?

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So... Meta don't address the privacy issues. They just move away from the tattle-tales.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] Bluegrass_Addict@lemmy.ca 9 points 23 hours ago

could have been nightstand pov.