Meta Is Turning Its Ray-Bans Into a Surveillance Machine for AI

What you see is what Meta AI sees while wearing the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, and your opt-out options are getting narrower and narrower. In a recent update to the privacy policy for the device, received by most owners in an email sent April 29, according to The Verge, Meta opened up the ability to collect more data for use to train its artificial intelligence models. Under the new policies, Meta explains that “Meta AI with camera use is always enabled on your glasses unless you turn off ‘Hey Meta,’” the activation phrase used to communicate with the company’s AI assistant. Wake words or phrases like this are common for AI devices, with the trade-off being that they are technically always on and waiting to be activated. Having the assistant always waiting to hear you give it a task removes some of the friction to functionality, but it also opens up the uncomfortable reality that these devices may be collecting information even when you aren’t thinking about it. In this case, if you ... Read full article.