Yesterday I saw someone with Meta smart glasses in public for the first time. Even just standing near him was unpleasant. It doesn’t matter whether it’s recording, pointing a camera and mics at somebody who didn’t agree to it feels rude and a bit shocking.

I worry that this is becoming more acceptable or do others feel the same way? Companies keep pushing forward, now with smart neckleses, smart headphones, (all equipped with camera and mic). Are these all doomed to fail? What feature would convince me or others to actually start using them? It’s certainly not chatgpt strapped on your face, or a shitty quality spy camera either.

If any of my friends or family wore these, I wouldn’t feel comfortable speaking to them.

Im interested in your experiences. Thanks for reading.

  • utopiah@lemmy.ml
    2·
    9 hours ago

    Written in jest and yet using CV at scale on GPUs initially used for LLMs make sense.

    Yet… why do so? As I wrote just minutes ago in https://lemmy.ml/post/41546700/23280257 there is already very high quality signal that requires nearly no compute : your wireless trace. Google/Apple and your mobile provider or ISP and thus the government hosting it already know 24/7 where you are, how active you are, etc solely from your 5G/4G signal. Well OK for activity it’s with the IMU but the point is this is basically computationally free.

    You move around,

    • your mobile phone scans for 5G signals,
    • login in a nearby tower via its SIM/eSIM
    • and voila, you are there. It’s basically few requests on some databases and it’s instantaneous.

    compare this with

    • your identity with facial features (lots of photo) is store in a large DB
    • there is no known location so a network of thousands if not millions of cameras have to be queried to try to match your facial features again the last frames, so that’s ~gigabytes of data to send somewhere or query all those cameras with setup locally
    • there is a match! then repeat this locally for the next cameras, maybe just hundreds
    • light change or hoodie on, no match, restart process

    this is ridiculously expensive to run. I’m not saying it can’t be done (it’s been done and it’s not hard to setup) but… WHY would one do so when the first setup works more reliably and is orders of magnitude cheaper?

    Obviously both can be combined but also both can be bypassed conveniently and extremely cheaply (leave your phone home, wear sunglasses and a hygiene mask) so even though a realistic scenario I’d argue it’s not rational to not just rely on what already works for the vast majority of situations.

    • Horsecook@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      3 hours ago

      Tracking phones only does that. And Flock’s mostly just a license plate reader, so far. Those sorts of things are great if you’re a cop stalking your ex-wife, but are nearly useless if you’re trying to track down a masked man that shot the CEO of an insurance company then fled on a bicycle.