TLDR: Techbros in SF are wearing AI pins that record everything everyone says around them.
“My general sense is that we should assume we are being recorded at all times,” said Clara Brenner, a partner at venture capital firm Urban Innovation Fund. “Of course, this is a horrible way to live your life.”
Damn right it is. Every day one step closer to dystopia. Fuck this shit.
We’ve built sophons and deployed them against ourselves.
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After living for nearly three centuries under the constant surveillance of the sophons, being free of the alien voyeurs brought a sudden, fresh sense of relief. The ability to shield space from sophons had been developed soon after the Great Resettlement. It was rumored that those who had entered the very first sophon-free room came down with something called “screen syndrome”: They talked incessantly as if they were drunk, and bared all their secrets to their companions. A reporter described the condition this way: “In this narrow slice of heaven, the people opened their hearts. Our gazes were no longer veiled.”
Why the fuck would someone pay money for and wear something like this??
These people are genuinely mentally ill and need professional help. Listen to them at conferences, and they have zero concerns about this because the tech bros can afford to buy or sue their way out of anything they don’t like. They just want 800 assistants that don’t speak unless spoken to, to do everything for them.
whatever reason they claim it is, it isn’t. just like with crypto, AI, NFTs, the metaverse, whatever.
the real reason is they are unfuckable losers who want to record women. and maybe some normal weird people who like archiving literally everything. the second group can be reasoned with and don’t mind restrictions like visible recording lights, etc. the first group will fight tooth and nail about their “right” to be a creep on the metro.
“My general sense is that we should assume we are being recorded at all times,” said Clara Brenner, a partner at venture capital firm Urban Innovation Fund. “Of course, this is a horrible way to live your life.”
This from a VC firm partner of all things.
Is that not literally illegal?
generally speaking, recording in public is legal, and this is generally a good thing. but the laws haven’t kept up with the tech, especially covert wearables that will 100% be used mostly for creepy shit.
