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Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by selfhoster1312 »

hungryhobbit wrote: post #167
Brusco_RF wrote: post #132

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Feel free to solve a problem and release it for free. People do that every day.

And people give donations to homeless people every day ... but it doesn't mean we have a systemic solution to homelessness. As said above, if you do want a systemic solution, it needs a business plan. That's just the reality of a world with scarce resources.

Well i mean there is an obvious solution to homelessness: requisition the empty dwellings. That's not exactly a business plan for maintenance in the long term, but that's certainly much better than the current situation.

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by gspr »

yalogin wrote: post #274
gspr wrote: post #242

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It is absolutely not inevitable. Please don't spread this defeatism. It is absolutely possible to ban the use of these things in public.

I am not sure of that, may be in Europe, cannot see the U.S. banning. May be some states but highly skeptical there. Better chance of it flopping or doesn’t get to a good enough threshold to matter.

"Maybe" for Europe, "highly skeptical" for the US. Fine. That's far from "inevitable"!

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by malauxyeux »

filup wrote: post #34

I can't think of one single practical use case for this that would benefit my life, because, right behind the glasses I have my very own locally available facial recognition built in.

It's somewhat niche, but nursing homes would benefit from low-friction facial recognition of residents.

At least where I've worked, there's a constant churn of care staff — with some workers bridging a gap for only a single shift. Institutions currently offer a printed list with portrait, name, room number, and relevant pathologies for each resident. But it takes most people at least a few days to memorize the info. And some people are difficult to recognize from their intake photo.

OTOH, the tech would only need to match a handful of residents. And it would need to conform to privacy laws. So doing the match locally on the device would be a much better fit.

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Post by thunderfork »

pj_mukh wrote: post #300
vorpalhex wrote: post #299

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I'm a parent of two, one of whom is a baby. I rock a Sony zv-e10ii. Image quality is real. That glasses camera is teeny tiny. At the most basic layer, it's going to look like a bad camera from decades ago by the time your kids are old enough to want to see those photos. Meta sells that device to generate data and profit from "services". Zuck said so directly in an earnings call: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/zuckerb…

Fine in the crib, out in the open at a critical moment when your kid runs into your arms, screw image quality, you want that moment captured and with active kids there's about 2-3 of these moments every day. "the best camera is the one you have with you". If I don't like something about my hot frog pot, I'll just switch to the Apple glasses when they come out [1] ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . Zuck doesn't have much room to maneuver wi…

I feel like "the upside of the privacy invasion glasses is that parents can have induced videographer anxiety where they once would have had to suffice with memories, how horrible" is not compelling.

I wouldn't malign you, but if you were a close friend I'd probably approach it in the same way I approach friends who are getting a little too deep into gacha or gambling or funko pop "collecting".

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Post by qsxfthnkp2322 »

true_religion wrote: post #116
jjice wrote: post #38

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Honestly, if any big tech would implement it this way, it's likely Apple. Their image face recognition in Photos currently is fully on device from what I understand and it is set by who you associate it with locally.

I’m not sure why they don’t do it this way already with the meta glasses. Online comparison just adds latency.

Meta is clearly harvesting all the data.

Re: Meta's ships facial recognition on smart glasses

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Post by pj_mukh »

thunderfork wrote: post #306
pj_mukh wrote: post #300

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Fine in the crib, out in the open at a critical moment when your kid runs into your arms, screw image quality, you want that moment captured and with active kids there's about 2-3 of these moments every day. "the best camera is the one you have with you". If I don't like something about my hot frog pot, I'll just switch to the Apple glasses when they come out [1] ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ . Zuck doesn't have much room to maneuver wi…

I feel like "the upside of the privacy invasion glasses is that parents can have induced videographer anxiety where they once would have had to suffice with memories, how horrible" is not compelling. I wouldn't malign you, but if you were a close friend I'd probably approach it in the same way I approach friends who are getting a little too deep into gacha or gambling or funko pop "collecting".

But they are not "privacy invasion glasses", data isn't uploaded unless I explicitly tell it to. "Oh But he's definitely lieing", yes yes, I know, and the moment there is evidence for that, I can switch to other glasses and the Meta glasses are dead, so I'd love for him to try (unlike FB or Insta, there is no network effect here to hold me).

Either way I'm not a glasshole, I'm just a dad.

There is no point arguing about the value of photographs.

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