In their ongoing drive to remove every last vestige of your privacy, as well as make the world a worse place, Meta (AKA Facebook) has unleashed a new generation of smart AI-enabled glasses that are evidently already on sale through Amazon.
The question I have is why anyone would want to buy them.
We know from Meta’s virtual reality efforts that their products are crap that lose shareholders lots of money. And we know from previous the previous Meta Glasses generation that they subcontracted a Kenyan firm to review video from people’s AI glasses, so we know that not only will they invade your privacy, they’ll also subcontract other people to do it.
And then they’ll serve you ads based on that invasion of your privacy.
So why would anyone (other than “influencers” who are either paid to do so or are trying to be trendy) want to buy them?
There are some use cases for smart glasses, like recording interactions with police, etc. Maybe taking vacation videos. But even in those cases, non-Meta choices are available considerably cheaper through Amazon.
Hell, even those using them as “pervert glasses” can get cheaper deals. (And in The Before Time, The Long Long Ago, there was a simple, effective cure for perverts taking upskirt video and sneaking into women’s restrooms: you beat the shit out of them, and they never did that ever again.)
Meta Glasses are undesirable products from an untrustworthy company.
Tags: AI, Facebook, privacy rights, technology