In today's installment of the AI boom turning privacy into a quaint anachronism cherished by people born before the year 2000, Facebook parent company Meta has confirmed to TechCrunch that pictures taken by its new Ray Ban smart glasses and analyzed by onboard Meta AI tools, as well as recordings of all voice commands given to the glasses (unless you opt out), will be used by the company to train its AI models.
When I first heard "Facebook Ray Ban," my mind jumped to that old FB Messenger scam—you know, your old college RA or a friend of a friend's roommate DMing you after three years of silence to hawk 90% off spectacles at a credit card number-scraping website after their account got hacked. But we're here to discuss something a bit more sinister: Meta's "then as farce, again" to the farce of Google Glass, a collab with eyewear brand Ray Ban to produce specs with a little camera in the frame, voice activated and sporting various functions powered by Meta's proprietary AI models.
