This is a very interesting article. We’re walking right into the very dystopia that so many sci-fi authors repeatedly have warned us about. They were warnings, not a playbook.
What distinguishes a panopticon isn’t merely inescapable surveillance, but the fact that you don’t know when you’re being watched. You simply have to live with the unbearable uncertainty that, at any moment, you could be.
Whether people realize it or not, we already live in a panopticon. Not only are there camera everywhere - on buildings, businesses, homes, streets, phones, cars, etc - but there are other sensors and mechanisms tracking things like your movement, activity, and heart rate.
…despite a growing body of research suggesting that relying on AI models leads to critical thinking skills atrophying.
There was a novel that predicted this decades ago. The main character was so reliant on his AR goggles that when they were stolen in a mugging he was nearly catatonic until his friends got it back.
This is the world we are heading toward, and I don’t know what we can possibly do at this point to minimize the harm to both our environment and our species. The worst-case dystopia seems more and more inevitable by the day.
Companies need to stop building the torment nexus
We need to stop building the companies
“AI-powered”. That alone should turn everyone off
As someone whose taught a fair number of undergrad classes, my nightmare scenario is a student showing up to an exam wearing one of these fucking things. When I tell them to take the damn things off, they then might protest saying they have prescription lenses and that they’re the only way they can take the exam.
Can’t it just be in the requirement of the exam? If they have connected glasses, they have to remove them for the duration of the exam and use them only after leaving the room. If they are spotted with them, they get disqualified instantly?
Edit: IMHO the accessibility argument would not stand for a written exam as those glasses are often used to transcribe audio. If it’s written there is nothing to transcribe thus is not required. Those glasses are also more expensive than the non connected one so economically speaking if they can afford these glasses, they sure can afford the non connected ones. If they don’t have a pair of non connected glasses they have to plan ahead of the exam which typically happens weeks if not months after the beginning of the semester so it’s on them to plan accordingly.
TL;DR: forbid them in school ToS.
This is worse than a prison. In a prison the prisoners cells are not normally under video surveillance unless the prisoner was super high risk for something.
Even Epstein, a true high risk prisoner, didn’t have cameras inside his cell, and he was allegedly on suicide watch when he was murdered by Trump’s goons to try to cover up his pedo shit.
Makes me paranoid now to go out.
I’ve been like that for many, many years.
Genuinely, every person who participated in creating this should be taken out to an island and dumped there, to be forgotten about.
This is vile.
Big Brother strapped to your fucking face.
Id quite like a HUD instead of a smart phone.
So transformative will it prove to the human brain, the twenty-something-year-old inventors promise, that wearers will soon be not just thinking, but “vibe thinking.”
End this. Go down to the Titanic, please.
One way trip.
Oh wow! A whole new generation of “glassholes” coming up!
Google Glass at least had the indicator light, and was relatively obvious - this is worse.
Who would have thought that people don’t want to be recorded without their knowledge or consent?
This would be a huge setback to anyone even remotely concerned about privacy.
Yeah, this is understandable but like, where were these people who are up in arms two decades ago? The ship has sailed. Walk around in any store, mall, shopping center, urban area… But no, all those recording devices are to keep me “safe”. But glasses, now that’s too far.
There’s a huge difference between a somewhat stationary surveillance camera and a hidden personal camera that films 24/7 without an indicator.
imagine passing everything you see in life to openai api
worse, meta ai api
So I know what to look for in the future for people to avoid, the glasses apparently look like this:
I’m going to refuse to talk to people unless they take them off and shut them down first.
I won’t even give them the option to take them off. If I see someone wearing them I had intended to interact with, I’ll keep on walking by and ignore the person.
Thats the wayfarer model, you’ll never be able to tell, theyre too common
You’re missing the details:
Regular wayfarer on the left has the small oval (sometimes chrome) accent. AI wayfarer on the right as the round black camera lenses.
You’re going up close to every person you see with wayfarers to check the corner for a small oval? The details are too small to matter from a distance.That’s what I’m trying to say.
There will likely be other models or brands where you can’t even rely on the distinction you’re trying to make here.
It’s looking bleak.
And putting Ray Ban on the “never buy a fucking thing from” list.
You should go up the chain and put the parent company of the parent company and all the related properties there
That’s 99% of eyeglasses in the US and Canada
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Not Costco tho!
Or most of the online only stores.
Ray Ban’s parent company is going to have AI glasses from all of the companies they own. I was boycotting Ray Ban up until I learned that it’s really fucking difficult to find prescription sunglasses big enough for my giant head that can accommodate my very strong prescription and Ray Ban had the only pair that I could find.
Also throwing out Zenni as an option. I’m on the verge of coke bottle sized lenses and can find many frames from them.
Have you tried Warby Parker? I’ve been using them for prescription sunglasses for years with decent success and I’m blind as a bar without lenses.
I remember this Black Mirror episode! Dudes wife was banging someone else and he gets wicked drunk crashes his car and replays the memory over and over again for years. Good Times! 🫠
Are there glasses that scrambles other people’s cameras that the rest of us could wear?
Zenni offers ID blocking glasses. A friend has them. They look perfectly normal. Can’t say how well they work but it stops Apple face ID perfectly well.
I went to the site and tried to pick the ID Guard lens on both a prescription and sunglasses, neither worked. No way to tell how much they are.
It looks like $50-60 per pair.
I came here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… And I’m all out of bubblegum.
Invasion of the privacy snatchers.
