It still blows my mind that anyone would volunteer to don these smart glasses, it's almost like some alien mindset to me.
Its a reverse They Live!
Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
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Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
#282Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
#283Meta cancels the contract with the outsourcing company they contracted to classify smart glasses content after employees at the company whistleblow about serious privacy issues with the content they were paid to classify.
"Fun" bonus fact: This isn't the first time Sama (the outsourcing company) has had these problems. OpenAI had them classify CSAM, so Sama fired them as a client back in 2022. https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/ We're 4 years on, 3 years since that report broke. Not a single thing has improved about how tech companies operate.
> Sama (the outsourcing company)
If script writers gave the company this name in a fictionalization it would be rejected as too on the nose.
Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
> > Meta said this was for the purpose of improving the customer experience, and was a common practice among other companies. > Am I reading this correctly?! This is probably the weirdest statement I've read on the internet in twenty years. It's total fantasy. I've worked in big tech. Casually uploading and providing company/contractor access to non-redacted intimate photos or pictures of the insides of people's home…
I’ve worked in trust and safety - for me this is stupid, but well below the threshold of impossible. Hell, I know of a major firm that decided QA was not needed for their trust and safety process. Another common issue will be SEA Arabic speakers tasked with labelling Middle Eastern Arabic content, because accents and cultural dialects are not a thing. I’ve had people at FAANG firms cry on my shoulder, because they co…
Meta could at least pretend that they don't intend to capture people in their most intimate and vulnerable moments instead of slobbering on the sideline like "mm... Data..."
Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
#285Meta said the contracting "did not meet (meta's) standards". I am sure that is true. meta's "standard" is not to reveal the illegal, immoral, unethical things meta does. No matter what the harm. Maybe a company with those standards should not get our business. Oops, no wait, maybe they mean the Friedman Doctrine standards? In that case they are entitled to do any and every thing to make a profit. No matter what the h…
I used to work for Meta. I quit largely because of intense frustrations with the company. Meta has made a lot of mistakes, overlooked a lot of harms, and made a lot of short-sighted, selfish choices. Many things about the world are worse than they could be because of choices Meta has made. So that when I say that they really do have a zero tolerance policy for anyone using their internal systems to violate user priva…
> I used to work for Meta. I quit largely because of intense frustrations with the company. Meta has made a lot of mistakes, overlooked a lot of harms, and made a lot of short-sighted, selfish choices. Many things about the world are worse than they could be because of choices Meta has made.
When did FaceBook make the world not-worse?
Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
How else do you want companies to remove and prevent CSAM? It seems like you must have some human involvement to train and monitor. It’s a terrible job, I wouldn’t want to do it, but someone needs to. Perhaps one day, AI will be accurate enough to not need it, but even then you need someone to process complaints and waivers (like someone’s home photos being inaccurately flagged).
> How else do you want companies to remove and prevent CSAM? Different situation. Facebook has to do CSAM moderation because it's a publishing platform. People will post CSAM on facebook, so they must do moderation. And "just don't have facebook" isn't a solution because every publication of any sort has to deal with this problem; Any newspaper accepting mail has this problem. (Albeit to a much more scaled down versi…
> In contrast, OpenAI has no such problem. It did not have CSAM pushed onto it, it actively collected such data itself. It could have, at any point before and after, simply stopped scraping all of the web indiscriminately and switched to using more curated sources of scraped data.
This is of course incredibly illegal, but megacorps (by valuation) and oligarchy members are above the law so who cares. I assume there could be a regulatory framework which can make this legal for an extremely specific purpose, but there is zero change that OpenAI was part of this/abiding by this in 2022, absolutely none.
Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
#287Earlier quoted context omitted.
Sounds about right. If you know someone who uses these smart glasses, it's important not to tolerate them whatsoever. Don't speak with them, interact with them. I wouldn't even recommend being in their presence.
I want to get the Oakley Meta ones so I can record bike rides easier, should I not be tolerated?
Wear a GoPro on your helmet like the rest so you can be shunned.
If you insist on the glasses, wear a fake GoPro.
Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
#288Meta cancels the contract with the outsourcing company they contracted to classify smart glasses content after employees at the company whistleblow about serious privacy issues with the content they were paid to classify.
Sounds about right. If you know someone who uses these smart glasses, it's important not to tolerate them whatsoever. Don't speak with them, interact with them. I wouldn't even recommend being in their presence.
Are GoPros acceptable?
I went to the beach, jet skiing. One of the guys had Meta glasses.
I liked the footage.
Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yeah, why the hell is Meta wa5tching people's videos either? Why PAY a company to invade our privacy and watch our videos? It's flipping BIZARRE.
Isn’t that obvious from the article? They’re labeling content for training AIs, something which is happening all over the world constantly.
And then people are shocked that no one wants the data centers for this shit built in their backyard.
Re: Meta in row after workers who saw smart glasses users having sex lose jobs
#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
CSAM exists on social media because they are so large that it's not possible to moderate them effectively. To me this is a a no-go. If a business is so large that it cannot respect laws, it needs to be shut down. The correct way to organize social media is in federated way. Each server only holds on average a few hundred or few thousand people. Server moderators should be legally responsible for content on their serv…
> Banning people is way easier on small servers Big “citation needed” here. My bet is that Meta have far better moderation systems than any other social media company on the planet.
when i ran a fediverse server for myself and 3 people, but allowed public signups if someone came by; it was very easy to ban people, and very easy to null-route entire swaths of the fediverse, because i didn't want their content on my service.
That's more what i got from that pull-quote. I know a company that has hundreds of individual forums, and those are all moderated quickly and correctly (last i heard). They're moderated so effectively they often get DDoS by Russian IPs for banning users for scam posts from that country.