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Meta contractor fires 1,100 AI trainers after they revealed Ray-Ban glasses recorded private and intimate footage
gedaliyahhttps://www.techspot.com/news/112259-meta-contractor-fires-1100-ai-trainers-after-they.html
The same firm that helped train ChatGPT is now at the center of Meta’s smart glasses privacy scandal
The glasses include an AI assistant that requires recording audio and video, some of which becomes AI training data. Human contractors scan and label material that AI struggles with.
Meta states that its terms of service explain these details, and the glasses require explicit user permission to engage AI mode. Nonetheless, Sama employees reported that the glasses recorded banking information, private conversations, people naked in bathrooms, and intimate encounters.
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chaosCruiserMeta states that its terms of service explain these details, and the glasses require explicit user permission to engage AI mode. Nonetheless, Sama employees reported that the glasses recorded banking information, private conversations, people naked in bathrooms, and intimate encounters.
I’m pretty sure the wall of text only lawyers read, but everyone just blindly accepts covers all of that and more. Meta has enough money to hire an army of lawyers to write a bulletproof TOS.
The audience for ray-bans isn’t exactly poor though, fingers crossed one of them is a notable lawyer with a bone to pick
But who would voluntarily attack a shark like Meta? You would need to be pretty sure it’s a case where Meta will just settle out of court. Or maybe a case where Meta has clearly screwed up and has no way to win? If that’s the case, they’ll just drag it out until the opponent runs out of money and gives up. Either way, seems a bit risky to me. I guess the EU could sue Meta and stand a chance.
True even if they went to court and won whatever the punishment would be probably wouldn’t hurt Meta
The audience for ray-bans isn’t exactly poor though
Eh, the Ray-Ban frames for my prescription glasses were less than $100, well below many of the frames they had. Didn’t even notice the name until afterwards. I bought them for the price and the shape that complimented my face best.
I’m still waiting for someone to make glasses like this but with local AI you run in your phone
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It’s not their fault so that’s kinda sad.
Now some other contractors in some other country are gonna look at it obviously. Not solving anything.
The problem I see is that there’s more and more support for mass surveillance. Many countries in the EU are totally ok with chatcontrol, some countries now want to forbid anonymous social media etc. It’s insane.
generally, screw meta; there is no privacy when it comes to it.
Not that I support any of this but people reviewing and seeing people input banking information is fucked in a bunch of ways in particular.
At least the banking information likely belonged to the people that bought the glasses. It’s very possible that people have unknowingly had sex with people wearing these glasses and now not only does a sex tape exist of them, it was also sent to help train AI and other people have seen it too.
Super true
I’m really glad that people are getting fired for doing exactly what we would have suspected they would be doing, and all before a public rollout of these assholes monitoring us.
This just proves that they couldn’t even be trusted to monitor themselves.
I side with the whistleblowers myself.
The ones getting fired are the employees bringing the violations to light. The assholes monitoring us are doing just fine.
People fuck with their expensive sunglasses on?
don’t mash genitals if you can see the sky you’ll end up on Google maps satellite/3D flyover/street view maybe
unless you’re into that. I’m not kink shaming
still, those things are pricey, no?
you will have to lie to the repair shop on how you broke your Facebook sunglasses
on the surveillance: I already assumed they were doing that
isn’t breaching everyone’s privacy their whole business model?
You guys still use Meta ?😱
Y-you did post this using TOR, didn’t you ano-er, I mean-fellow lemming? 😧😬
Nah ,mullvad and grapheneos user 😂