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Its certainly not altruism. Given that Facebook/Meta owns the largest user data collection systems, any advancement in AI ultimately strengthens their business
by spiralk 2y ago
Its certainly not altruism. Given that Facebook/Meta owns the largest user data collection systems, any advancement in AI ultimately strengthens their business model (which is still mostly collecting private user data, amassing large user datasets, and selling targeting ads).
There is a demo video that shows a user wearing a Quest VR headset and asks the AI "what do you see" and it interprets everything around it. Then, "what goes well with these shorts"... You can see where this is going. Wearing headsets with AIs monitoring everything the users see and collecting even more data is becoming normalized. Imagine the private data harvesting capabilities of the internet but anywhere in the physical world. People need not even choose to wear a Meta headset, simply passing a user with a Meta headset in public will be enough to have private data collected. This will be the inevitable result of vision models improvements integrated into mobile VR/AR headsets.
- goatlover 2y agoThat's very dystopian. It's bad enough having cameras everywhere now. I never opted in to being recorded.
- warkdarrior 2y agoThat sounds fantastic. If they make the Meta headset easy to wear and somewhat fashionable (closer to eyeglass than to a motorcycle helmet), I'd take it everywhere and record everything. Give me a retrospective search and conferences/meetings will be so much easier (I am terrible with names).
- meroes 2y agoI wouldn’t even say hi alone my name to someone wearing a Meta headset out in public. And if facial recognition becomes that common for wearers, most of the population is going to adorn something to prevent that. And if it’s at work, I’m not working there and I have to think many would agree. Coworkers don’t and wouldn’t tolerate coworkers taking videos or pictures of them.
- sebastiennight 2y agoThis is not how the overwhelming majority of the world works though. > if facial recognition becomes that common for wearers, most of the population is going to adorn something to prevent that "Most of the population" is going to be "the wearers". > Coworkers don’t and wouldn’t tolerate coworkers taking videos or pictures of them. Here is a fun experience you can try: just hit "record" on every single Teams or Meet meeting you're ever on (or just set recording as the default setting in the app). See how many coworkers comment on it, let alone protest. I can tell you from experience (of having been in thousands of hours of recorded meetings in the last 3 years) that the answer is zero.
- spiralk 2y agoYou are probably right, but that is truly a cyberpunk dystopian situation. A few megacorps will catalog every human interaction and there will be no way to opt out.
- xvector 2y ago[flagged]
- troupo 2y ago> I think you dramatically overestimate the number of people that would actually care about any theoretical privacy infringement Not really surprised that you don't see it as a problem > This is a very antiquated view IMO. You are already being filmed and monitored at work. Not really surprised that you don't see it as a problem
- talldayo 2y ago> a privacy-aware secure LLM Funniest thing I've heard all month.
- xvector 2y agoDo read through the linked article. Not sure how you could make cloud compute more private if you tried; apart from homomorphic encryption.