Posted on 05/24/2025 8:39:29 AM PDT by Openurmind
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is partnering with Jony Ive, the legendary designer behind the iPhone, to create wearable AI devices that can be “fully aware” of a user’s surroundings and life.
According to the Wall Street Journal, Altman has directed his team to produce 100 million of these secretive “AI companion” gadgets.
The unnamed device, still in development, will be compact—small enough for a pocket or desk—and designed to reduce screen time. Unlike an Apple Watch, it won’t have phone features.
The collaboration between Altman and Ive sounds like a Silicon Valley dream, but skepticism remains. After the Humane AI pin flopped—users returned the $700 wearable due to its bulk and poor performance—many wonder if people will embrace another always-watching AI device.
It’s unclear if the device will record audio or video, or where such data would be stored. OpenAI hasn’t clarified these details. Still, the concept feels eerily similar to Black Mirror’s “The Entire History of You,” where implants record every moment of a person’s life.
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They are already doing it without warrants... Everything you say and do on a cellphone is being recorded. Not only that, it is being recorded and sold.
How is it legal? Because when you agree to use their device and service you are waiving all your privacy rights by contract. To use the device you have to legally agree that they can collect and use it all as they like.
Contract law prevails with this.
,,, can’t blame this sh*t sandwich on fundamentalists in the middle east. Venture capital and an ethics deficit will get it done.
I would put mine on my dog.
Then maybe a cat for a while.
As long as you obey your masters the information on you will be boring and ignored.
The moment you step out of line your life starts to get very interesting.
“I can see all this absolutely being available for sale to the highest bidders.”
They might as well get greedy—and continuing holding auctions forever—until the information is held by millions of dubious actors.
Q-AI
(Quantum AI) ✖️
“until the information is held by millions of dubious actors.”
Yep, that is what they are already doing. Data brokering is a huge business.
https://www.security.org/data-removal/data-broker/
You may be right. But if the device that my friend is carrying records me, I have no contractual relationship with the device provider.
What hell is this?
“But if the device that my friend is carrying records me,I have no contractual relationship with the device provider.”
That is exactly right! But they are secretly doing that everyday anyhow. And how would you even know? They did it with bluetooth device proximity monitoring during covid. They are doing it right now for Geofencing tracking and location.
https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/geofencing
Thoughts?
At this point if I wasn’t in their list, I’d get my feelings hurt.
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