Meta Confirms It Will Use Ray-Ban Smart Glasses Images for AI Training

Meta has confirmed that it may use images analyzed by its Ray-Ban Meta AI smart glasses for AI training. The policy applies to users in the United States and Canada who share images with Meta AI, according to the company. While photos captured on the device are not used for training unless submitted to AI, any image shared for analysis falls under different policies, potentially contributing to Meta's AI model development.

Further reading: Meta's Smart Glasses Repurposed For Covert Facial Recognition.

Can I opt out?

[bjwest]

If I can't opt out of this, I'll not even consider purchasing this thing. Not that I was considering anything from Meta, but this will make it a definite no.

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[Pinky's Brain]

"However, once you ask Meta AI to analyze them, those photos fall under a completely different set of policies."

If you only use it as a camera or if you only use it with local AI like I-XRAY you won't opt in.

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[bjwest]

"However, once you ask Meta AI to analyze them, those photos fall under a completely different set of policies."

If you only use it as a camera or if you only use it with local AI like I-XRAY you won't opt in.

I haven't looked into these things, do they store the images locally only, or do they send it home even if you haven't submitted it to the AI for annalists? This could very well be a security risk for passwords and door/gate/safe codes as well if the camera is constantly on. I can see people not even considering that while wearing them.

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[Deep Esophagus]

You're not as at-risk as the people you point them at. Can folks in the path of your doxx-o-vision opt out of having their data sent to Meta?

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[bjwest]

You're not as at-risk as the people you point them at. Can folks in the path of your doxx-o-vision opt out of having their data sent to Meta?

There is no expectation of privacy when you're out in public, however wearing these inside a private club or someone's home could be an issue. Some stores also forbid pictures and/or recording inside.

So much for useful AI

[ddtmm]

And there we go, the end of useful AI. Won't be long before ads for useless products flood AI and make it the paid biased crap that review sites have become. I expected the enshitification, but not this fast.

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[ebunga]

Generative AI as we know it today has its roots in SEO spam article generation.

I refuse to be subjected to this

[haxor.dk]

I will not be in a room with a person wearing these spying devices, especially knowing that Meta is amongst the most rotten and careless companies when it comes to what they do with our personal data and identifying information. You betcha your face and voiceprint will be up for sale on the data brokerages within the day.

I'd tell them to take it off, or get out.

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[sound+vision]

If anyone you know uses Facebook, Android, or iOS, you're already being printed and analyzed. Probably without you even interacting with them.

As Vader says...

[necro81]

I am altering the deal, pray I don't alter it any further.

And, for parody's sake: Robot Chicken [youtube.com]

But smart people ...

[PPH]

... wear Serengetis.

I'll do the same thing that I did during G-Glass

[vrhelmutt]

I'll kindly ask they take the goofy looking sh*t off and if they refuse, I will kick them out of my business (as with Google Glass), terminate pending deals (Torched and ethernet install years ago) and generally single that person out in public as loudly as possible (I got thrown out of a B-Sides conference LOL). Scorched earth strategy, group buy as many as possible and put them in a room with a Rick Roll 24/7 playing

Weasel words

[jenningsthecat]

... photos captured on the device are not used for training unless submitted to AI ...

That doesn't say that the user has to be the one to submit images to AI. It seems unlikely that Meta can't do anything it wants with everything the glasses 'see'. Therefore, it seems unlikely that Meta won't do everything it wants with anything the glasses can capture, regardless of users' wishes.

What's that you say? You thought paying the purchase price conferred ownership of the glasses? Silly wabbit - ownership is for your betters, not for you!

Expect to get punched in the face if wearing these

[BardBollocks]

This should be ILLEGAL.