Teen boys are using Meta's AI glasses to harass and bully victims -- overwhelmingly girls -- at middle schools and high schools.
  • TIEPilot@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.

    Couple this w/ the AI nudification sites and this is gonna be insane. Teen boys don’t think big picture…

  • arin@lemmy.worldBannedEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Stop blaming the kids, it’s the corporation’s fault. Title should be Meta glasses are recording and enabling harassment of underaged school children

    • BradleyUffner@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      These kids absolutely know it’s wrong. Stop enabling bullies. The kids should NOT get a pass for this just because some corporation did something wrong first.

    • JensSpahnpasta@feddit.orgEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Yeah. The kids are just the last part of the chain of failure here. Why is Meta producing such a thing? Why the fuck are parents buying several hundred dollars worth of spy glasses for their children and sending them to school with them without any supervision? And what the fuck is the school doing here? The first report of someone harassing other pupils with such a device should be reason to ban them and take hard discipline measures against the harrasser

  • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Hoooold up just a minute. How much do these glasses cost? Like hundreds right? What kind of teen boy has that much money to burn? I sure as fuck didn’t, and I worked. Their parents bought them, and these are kids, so it’s 100% blame on the parents here.

    • magnue@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      No different to mobile phones or iPods or PlayStations. Pair of meta raybans are arguably cheaper than those items now due to inflation.

    • Gerudo@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      When I was 16 and started working, I quickly had enough money saved from working minimum wage, part time, to buy myself a car. It’s not impossible.

      Also, these may be kids/young adults, but they should all know right from wrong. Blame is absolutely on the students who use these too.

    • anon_8675309@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Even if the kids bought them it is still the parent’s responsibility to keep their kid from being an obnoxious pervert.

      • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        2 months ago

        That’s what really sucks about this.

        There’s no institutional backlash. We’re depending on parents who park these little shits in front of screens and expect to be left alone while their kids are radicalized.

        • 0xDREADBEEF@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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          2 months ago

          The alternative is having the rich parents be responsible for the children they breed and that will never happen so suck it up poors

    • Geologist@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I had thousands as a teenager from around 15 years old working part time evening and weekends at barely above minimum wage.

      When you have no expenses from living at home, you can save everything (and in my case blow it all on electronics lol)

  • Murse@slrpnk.netEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Teen Boys Men of all ages Are Using Meta Glasses to Terrorize sexually harass Girls women of all ages at High Schools and Middle Schools everywhere.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Is there any actual data to support the claim you’re making, or are you taking a few viral videos and using them as a means to support your own implicit bias?

        • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          Data.

          Stats.

          Compilation of actual, verified reports.

          But, your response does answer my question, and you should know it’s not 2014 anymore. No matter how fashionable your algorithm has made you think that it is to smear men as a whole, the rest of the world has seen how ridiculous it is.

          If you think you get to lump me or your male friends in with these people without being asked to prove it, you should maybe have enough respect for the men in your life that you esteem to actually hunt down some evidence before posting things like this.

          Have a great day.

            • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              Asking for proof? Should be a very easy thing to provide given how confident you are that, apparently, this is an epidemic among men.

              Far be it from all of us to pretend we’re guilty just because you presume we are.

              I’m sorry, but you’re being very unreasonable. I hope one day the men in your orbit stop quietly accepting that you say things like this.

              • athatet@lemmy.zipEnglish
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                2 months ago

                Nowhere did anyone say ‘all men are doing this’ the OP just changed it from ‘teen boys’ to ‘men of all ages’

                Fucking chill.

  • Smoogs@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    so if perverts are not allowed on school property and it is considered private space for that reason…

    so who is enforcing that law?

    the fuck happened to this society? everyone just seems to be victims all the time. no doers.

  • olenkoVD@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
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    2 months ago

    Here they’re not even allowing students to carry mobile phones inside of schools. How is this even allowed?

  • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I feel like everyone is talking about these glasses and I’ve never seen anyone wearing them. Not saying it’s not happening but I think it’s a US thing

    Is it just a power of glasses with plastic lenses and a camera or do they actually have any other features, because if it’s just a camera then they’re really isn’t any legitimate market.

  • Monument@piefed.worldEnglish
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    2 months ago

    People are being disgusting, using technology that was designed to be stealthy on purpose by others for disgusting reasons (to normalize allowing ever greater data collection by tech companies - no surprise the privacy protections are trivially easy to defeat), and are posting videos online for a reason - that they get satisfaction from it.

    I guess I don’t care if this makes me sound old or callous, but we need to bully these people. Make the people who post and share these videos embarrassed. Tell them they look like stupid losers who can’t get dates or talk to people. Make them feel bad for not being kind and socially connecting with others. Give them no community or understanding until they stop breaking the social contract.

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      the only 3 usecases for these are:

      Assholes

      Perverts

      Blind people - sucks for them, because the first two are going to ruin it before it benefits anyone with disabilities

      • stylusmobilus@aussie.zoneEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Yeah recording ICE activities might be another valid one

        Though that could be done with another type of concealed camera I guess

        • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          2 months ago

          so I’ve given that one some thought and came away with this: if ice / pd detains you, they’re going to take your recording devices. I need my glasses to see enough to walk around.

          also, even more gross: they know what to look for, because until recently, ICE was using these devices. That’s been banned, but probably only because they’re making their own.

          https://www.yahoo.com/news/us/articles/ice-banned-meta-glasses-now-154840012.html

            • mojofrododojo@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              2 months ago

              perhaps? actually sounds like a project aaaand a privacy nightmare, unfettering these devices from whatever protections for the public meta engages in…

              I’m all about surveilling ICE and law enforcement but… I don’t see these devices as an alternative at the end of the day.

    • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      What social contract? The kids wearing these can’t value something they’ve never known.

  • frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io
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    2 months ago

    Seems like something title 9 should be used to quash, but civil rights for women are only important if transgender people exist in public somewhere

  • Malyca@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    I guarantee most of these schools protect the bullies and punish the victims. Like if a girl being harassed broke the glasses, she would get expelled. The world is the way it is because people enable and worship bullies across the board.

    • innermachine@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      2 months ago

      This. My friend in HS went to guidance multiple times to complain about being bullied by another classmate. After the 2nd or 3rd time requesting thy switch his class, they decided to resolve the issue by forcing them to be partners for an assignment in class. He complained again, and was told to deal with it. One day my friend finally cracked and broke the bully’s nose because he had enough and clearly the school was only willing to make this worse, so they called the police on my friend. It’s pretty insane how some things get dealt with sometimes.

      • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        2 months ago

        I wish they called the police when I stood up for myself. It was sexual harassment/assault but I didn’t know that at the time, I just knew I didn’t like it so used violence. He stopped and ran off bleeding all over the place.

        Totally valid self defence from a legal perspective. But they only used the threat of calling the police and I was absolutely terrified so just shut down.

    • HerbGrower@slrpnk.netEnglish
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      2 months ago

      Schools don’t care about bullying or sexual harassment as long as it doesn’t look bad on them. If it can be swept under the rug, they will ignore it.

      At least that is my experience from schools in the UK.

    • arararagi@ani.socialEnglish
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      2 months ago

      In a different video, the same boy films another upset girl approaching him with a metal stool in her hands. An adult intervenes before anyone is hurt.

      Exactly, they always protect the bullies.

      • JasonDJ@lemmy.zipEnglish
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        2 months ago

        Humans suck at looking at things on a long timeline. “Sticks and stones”. You don’t usually see the effects of years of bullying until adulthood. Or at least not immediately. A TBI, that’ll get you fucking sued. Emotional trauma? What’s that?

        Fuck they still try to blame school shootings on videogames and now tiktok.

  • whereitsat@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    this article is stupid for another reason: go on youtube and look up camcorder footage of public high schools in the 90s.

    absolutely NOBODY is anxious about getting filmed, and nobody has bad intentions, and nobody would write an article about it.

    maybe things ARE worse but maybe the situation is more complex than meta glasses.

    • HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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      2 months ago

      In the 90s we didn’t have kids recording things for clout and follows. Kids with camcorders were the alt or nerd crowd doing it for themselves or at most local cable access.

    • Bilb!@lemmy.mlEnglish
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      2 months ago

      In the 90s, camcorders were a relative novelty and nobody had any reason to be anxious about being filmed because there was no way to easily share video with millions of strange people maliciously for clout. If you were caught doing something funny, you might appear on TV after signing a release. (e.g. America’s Funniest Home Videos) Sharing video on the internet was a practical technical impossibility, and people had mostly private lives. You’re right it’s not really the glasses, it’s the internet and social media. I wouldn’t be surprised if the first person POV provided by glasses makes content like that more compelling, though, and thus more common.

      People covertly filmed for malicious reasons even back then of course, but it was not generally made available to the masses.

      If I have a point, it’s that I don’t think this is evidence that we’re more fucked up now than we were then, just that technology has enabled new kinds of abuse that were inconceivable back then.

  • whereitsat@lemmy.zipEnglish
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    2 months ago

    can journalism please stop digging deep into the cambridge to pull out words like ‘wheedles?’

    i’ve been on this earth for almost 50 years, and i’ve read thousands of texts and never seen that word fucking ever.

    you should NOT have to look in the dictionary to read pop culture drivel. these dipshits are just trying to justify their privileged educations, and the ironic thing is that none of them can write for shit despite needing a private school/ivy league pedigree to churn out vacuous thinkpieces for teen vogue and futurism (whatever the hell that is).