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“A social internet cleansed of all content that takes advantage of others would be quite empty.” I’m not seeing a problem here.
Also no it wouldn’t, there’s plenty of interesting content on the internet. Almost all content on the internet has been self-published, content that has been published of someone without their consent constitutes a tiny fraction of all available content.
Far apart from the ethical issues I would find a video of some guy hitting on a girl who wasn’t interested to just be very boring. Why is that content anyone wants to watch?
Started a new job last Monday. Was pleasantly surprised by them having already banned perv glass.
The bar my girlfriend works out has preemptively banned them. They haven’t actually had an issue with them but management feel that banning them is good advertising. It probably is too.
I hope the glasses break on their face. But:
The two customers were, in fact, recording Hinkle, and the entire exchange was turned into content for social media.
…Can people not see this is the root problem?
These asswipes make a living being asswipes because Google, Meta, or Tiktok pay them to. Thats the root incentive. Most wouldnt risk all that trouble unless it was their living.
In other words, I dont want the moral of the story to be “this wouldnt happen without Meta glasses.” The platform subsidizing those glasses is the ultimate problem.
Two problems.
I see a lot of honest YouTubers who break their backs putting together quality educational hobby content and over time I have followed some as their numbers climb and it turns into more of a full time thing for them.
And then I see these brainrot morons pulling down 1000x the numbers and it’s just crushing. I guess people would rather eat shit than vegetables.
I guess people would rather eat shit than vegetables.
It’s not entirely their choice. The algorithm decides what’s presented.
It does so based on their inputs though. That doesn’t mean people are entirely in charge, but I think it’s wrong to say they have no involvement and just receive whatever the silicon genie dictates.
There’s also the root problem of employees having no agency to kick out misbehaving people. There’s this whole “the customer is king” ethos in American commerce and this is enabling the worst people to harass people without any consequences. If you are getting kicked out and banned from most stores in your town because you are an abusive asshole, you might think again about your behavior and maybe even change. If everything that is coming from your bad behavior is that some random employee is getting fired, yes, this will enable even worse behaviour.
I’ll never understand why Google Glass were so offensive but these are just fine
Timing. We are being shepherded into the surveillance state.
There is only ONE good thing the meta glasses are for and it’s blind people. They are immensely useful to help the blind and low vision users to navigate the world. Other than that, they should not able to exist.
As usual the disabled are the first to get hurt by all the bullshit people do. Guarantee one of these lemmy badasses who wants to run around hitting people is going to hit a blind person for just trying to get around.
let the downvotes rain but it does not matter who is uploading data to meta about its unconsenting environment.
What if we punished crimes instead of monetizing them? We’ve had a multimedia Internet for a generation now, we could do this.
“but you don’t have an expectation of privacy! no!! you don’t have and you shouldn’t!!! 😡😥”
My new go to is to stop the conversation, tell them to tell their glasses, out loud, to stop recording. If they dont then that conversation is over.
Period.How many people have these things that you are running into multiple users? I haven’t seen one yet
the problem is it was already recording you by that time
Pervert glasses are also great for corporate espionage
I was chatting with it CEO the other day and the your of recording glasses came up. He said they are band in the company, and they’ve had conversations with their lawyers, that also say not to allow them. I was happy to hear that.
band
banned
I like the image of a parade of glasses marching down the marketing isle, playing all kinds of different instruments, much more pleasing.
*aisle sorry
Thank you! (sincerely)
This was a very good, detailed read, including interviews with real affected people. I recommend anyone skimming the headline to read the full article.
Thanks, it was. And sad that in instances where the wearer could have been help accountable: Sprouts manager and comedy viewer, nothing was done.
In my line of work you would be terminated on the spot if you wore these to work. I have sections of the facility that a fit bit would get you escorted off site and likely loose your job.
Lucky you. I literally get a camera pointed at my face for every hour I work, and it screams if it thinks I’ve lost focus. Hopefully our bosses would tell these cameras to get bent, but based on their little rich people concerns over how to pacify the ‘lessers,’ I’m not hopeful.
AI driver facing dashcam?
There are legitimate uses for head mounted cameras that track your focus.
There are none for these devices that try to obfuscate their presence.
I hate that I had to retire my Raybans to home use only. They look exactly like meta glasses.
Sucks to lose the investment, but better than being punched in the face for looking like a pervert.
Wonder if Rayban owners can sue them for their money back now that they’re unwearable by anyone with sense.
Meta is a menace.
Period.
Full stop.
all places
If someone is wearing them, the glasses should be smashed while the user is still wearing them
