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Re: Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations

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Post by serf »

mrinfinitiesx wrote: post #48

The intentions seem genuine, and the ideas are good for what you would want people to use it for, but what about people like me? Recording data on and around you especially without their consent is not something I'm okay with. I'm against Windows adding in their 'Recall' feature highly, I don't want somebody's computer taking screenshots and transcribing my encrypted chats on all of their computer usage, I sure as he…

>Recording data on and around you especially without their consent is not something I'm okay with.

fulfilling that request would make nearly all 'connected' devices untenable.

I absolutely agree with you , but from this point how does that actually happen? how do we shift away from minuscule connected devices that sense everything about the world around them when they come effortlessly cheap and absolutely invaluable?

Re: Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations

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Post by mplewis »

kodjima33 wrote: post #3
mplewis wrote: post #2

Don’t wear one of these near me. I don’t want you recording our everyday conversations as a matter of habit. Ask permission first.

Do you tell the same to millions of people who wear headphones and Meta Raybans?

Yes. Get your weirdo cameras away from me.

Re: Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations

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Post by Legend2440 »

infotainment wrote: post #44
Hizonner wrote: post #21

Aren't a lot of y'all in California? Because wearing a wire is generally illegal there... https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySectio...

What a strange law. It seems to me that it should always be legal to secretly record conversations.

38 states agree with you and allow you to record any conversation you're a part of.

12 states, including california, disagree.

Re: Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations

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Post by tonyarkles »

Legend2440 wrote: post #53
infotainment wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a strange law. It seems to me that it should always be legal to secretly record conversations.

38 states agree with you and allow you to record any conversation you're a part of. 12 states, including california, disagree.

This is also, at least in Canada, why most security cameras only record video and not audio. If two people have a conversation that is recorded without their knowledge, you don’t even have one-party consent. You can record video in public but not audio.

Edit: where I am we have one-party consent rules for audio recording. I can have my phone in my pocket recording without you knowing just fine. But I can’t tape a microphone to a park bench and record the conversations there that I’m not a part of.

Re: Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations

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Post by jamilton »

tzm wrote: post #39

Genuinely curious if people think this is a product, solving a real problem? My mind goes to critical privacy rights and would likely require offline use?

It is a product. It is something people will buy. Lots of people just don't care about privacy that much, and the privacy risk factors with this are potentially lower than for other things people use with roughly the same level of "realness".

Re: Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations

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Post by devbent »

tzm wrote: post #39

Genuinely curious if people think this is a product, solving a real problem? My mind goes to critical privacy rights and would likely require offline use?

> Genuinely curious if people think this is a product, solving a real problem?

For people with memory issues, products like this can be life changing.

On a second note, imagine a world where everyone has perfect memory recall. The concept of "recording" someone is useless, as everyone around a conversation (e.g. sitting at the next table at a cafe) would be a 100% reliable witness to the conversation.

Obviously we would not fault someone for taking steps to train their memory to be better, so why fault them for using electronics to improve the limits of biology?

Re: Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations

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Post by elric »

Legend2440 wrote: post #53
infotainment wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What a strange law. It seems to me that it should always be legal to secretly record conversations.

38 states agree with you and allow you to record any conversation you're a part of. 12 states, including california, disagree.

Also illegal in Belgium, and presumably many other European countries, without prior notification. Spying on people is not cool.

Re: Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations

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Post by infotainment »

elric wrote: post #58
Legend2440 wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

38 states agree with you and allow you to record any conversation you're a part of. 12 states, including california, disagree.

Also illegal in Belgium, and presumably many other European countries, without prior notification. Spying on people is not cool.

One person's spying is another person's whistleblowing.

For example, a commonly-held view online is that it should be legal to record interactions with police. By your definition, however, that would be "spying", as the police may not necessarily consent.

Re: Show HN: Omi – Open-source AI wearable for capturing conversations

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Post by tobbe2064 »

In the end this is relies allmost completely on proprietary AI as a service services, right? I think the exact services should be advertised as well to help understand the limitations of the device.

E.g. Can I use this device for any language or is it just English. Can it do translations?

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