Posted on 12/14/2023 4:35:32 AM PST by EBH
For the past two weeks, I’ve been using a new camera to secretly snap photos and record videos of strangers in parks, on trains, inside stores and at restaurants. (I promise it was all in the name of journalism.) I wasn’t hiding the camera, but I was wearing it, and no one noticed.
I was testing the recently released $300 Ray-Ban Meta glasses that Mark Zuckerberg’s social networking empire made in collaboration with the iconic eyewear maker. The high-tech glasses include a camera for shooting photos and videos, and an array of speakers and microphones for listening to music and talking on the phone.
The glasses, Meta says, can help you “live in the moment” while sharing what you see with the world. You can livestream a concert on Instagram while watching the performance, for instance, as opposed to holding up a phone. That’s a humble goal, but it is part of a broader ambition in Silicon Valley to shift computing away from smartphone and computer screens and toward our faces.
Meta, Apple and Magic Leap have all been hyping mixed-reality headsets that use cameras to allow their software to interact with objects in the real world. On Tuesday, Mr. Zuckerberg posted a video on Instagram demonstrating how the smart glasses could use A.I. to scan a shirt and help him pick out a pair of matching pants. Wearable face computers, the companies say, could eventually change the way we live and work. For Apple, which is preparing to release its first high-tech goggles, the $3,500 Vision Pro headset, next year, a pair of smart glasses that look nice and accomplish interesting tasks are the end goal.
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I think that those pushing for a social credit system are behind this.
The return of the glassholes
The ability to share one’s personal experience with the world, regardless of whether anyone else is watching, is an enticement to self-worship. There will be a multitude ready to buy and use these products. As for surveillance, that too is exceedingly common on the part of geopolitical entities to keep us “safe.”
Read the user agreement!
I assure you that all of your videos “belong to us”.
Us being Meta.
Zuckerberg is furthering the surveillance state.
Larry Niven wrote about people who recorded their lives 24/7 in science fiction novel, about 1970.
These are all such wonderful advances in technology, or expensive toys, depending on your perspective. I wonder how much of this will survive The Great Reset.
Even before the smartphone, the left was pushing tendencies toward self-esteem and egocentric narcissism. We are now a selfie, live stream culture where people are (or strive to be) famous for being famous, devoid of any real accomplishments or the work that entails.
There once was a time when people read 1984 and swore they'd never let anything like an all-seeing telescreen into their homes...now people stand in lines for days and weeks, clamoring to ensure they have the latest version.
It's almost like society was groomed into first tolerating, then embracing the surveillance state. Welcome to the digital panopticon.
Did you ever see the movie “The Circle” with Tom Hanks? Scary, but almost inevititable.
a current Black Mirror episode deals with that very thing, cameras installed in the eye that records everything you see, do and say. In order to get into some places you have to let authority review say the last 24 hours of your life, scrubbing for key words, facial recognition and so forth. Very mark of the beast.
Right here Zuckerberg is admitting that these glasses work with AI.
Just imagine that you are wearing these glasses in your local mall.
As you walk through AI is amassing a data base of individuals and the what they are wearing.
As a subset of these individuals it collects the people wearing Trump campaign supporting items, and pro 2nd amendment items, and other conservatives slogans.
In effect putting together a facial recognition data base of political enemies.
Eventually match this list with the DMV’s license data base and you have names and addresses of your political enemies.
There is your list for the jackbooted thugs to make midnight raids.
What fun one could have with a man-portable small scale directed EMP device.
Look at someone, energize and their Meta gizmo is dead.
Perverts rejoice!
Big Brother does not need fleets of drones for his surveillance state. The people will spy on one another.
There is a name for what you are describing, often it is considered a tin foil idea, but as this tech moves into the new AI future the term is becoming far more real than ever.
Predictive Programming
I do not want anybody to know what Im doing. If you want to know what Im doing, it’s nunavut your business.
WOW! AI can pick out some pants for me?! Sign me up!
You can livestream a concert on Instagram while watching the performance, for instance, as opposed to following copyright laws.
You made me think...maybe we all should copyright our faces
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