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Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration…or something like that.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible· 28d

I write about this in the book. Increasingly, the proposition from these companies is “let us surveil you constantly.” That’s it! That’s the deal. In return you get the (supposed) benefit of a machine that “knows” you, whatever that’s supposed to mean. finance.yahoo.com/technology/a...

OpenAI's success in hardware will hinge on bringing a novel approach to the market — something it aims to do with the smart speaker. For instance, the device's technology is meant to become increasingly personalized and proactive as it gains a deeper understanding of its owner over time, according to the people.

OpenAI envisions the device anticipating needs, surfacing information proactively and serving as an expert on its user, they said. Though the speaker is designed to stay in the home, it will be easy to move around the house.

OpenAI believes the product's defining feature will be its personality and ability to connect on a humanlike level with users. The speaker incorporates mechanical elements that can move on their own, creating a sense that it is alive and not just an object responding to commands. The machine also will draw on personal information such as emails to better understand its owner.

Hypervisible @hypervisible· 28d

Genius ideas like “mobile smart speaker.” Truly inspired.

Bloomberg reports that the device will use “mechanical elements that can move on their own” in order to “connect on a humanlike level with users.” In February, The Information reported on a similar device equipped with a camera that can recognize items or people nearby.

Hypervisible @hypervisible· 28d

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Influencers who, after the launch, touted the glasses on social media were met with commenters’ accusations of selling out and enabling “a surveillance state”. Diet Prada, a popular fashion insider account on Instagram, added its two cents with a carousel of tongue-in-cheek remarks, including one that described Meta’s glasses as “a more ‘stylish’ way for strangers to harass and record you in public”.
On her Substack, stylist and fashion editor Gabriella Karefa-Johnson called out guests at Meta’s launch event: “Insane how many of y’all let meta take pictures of you at their party wearing their newest covert cop cam sunnies! Fascism chic for summer!”

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jul 12

🤷🏿‍♂️

While the objects that museums steward remain unchanged, the way people engage with them is evolving. Visitor-facing AI such as that at Leighton House has been on the rise since large language models (LLMs) exploded on to the market, based on the idea that a new generation might be more comfortable talking to a chatbot than reading a wall text. New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art created a chatbot mimicking socialite early-20th-century socialite Natalie Potter for its 2024 Costume Institute exhibition. At the Dalí Museum in St Petersburg, Florida, visitors can call up a reanimation of the surrealist painter on a lobster phone. More recently, US President Donald Trump spoke with an AI version of Theodore Roosevelt on a visit to the Presidential Library in North Dakota.

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jul 10

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When asked whether Flock’s system could prevent officers from misusing the data, including in cases across the country in which officers used the technology to stalk romantic partners or other personal contacts, Thomas said there was no technological solution.

“So you asked if there’s any way to stop bad people from doing a bad thing?” Thomas said. “And I tell you, I would love to solve that problem.”

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jul 9

The irony.

Flag” is the lowest, an indication to discuss the VIP with a supervisor. Next is “low risk”—that’s the marking for Falco, Morgan, and Ben Stiller, their fellow Knicks ride-or-die. After that is “medium risk” (the actor Lily Allen, her ex David Harbour, and the country singer Morgan Wallen) and “high risk” (the hip-hop stars Freddie Gibbs, Lil Jon, DaBaby, and A Boogie Wit da Hoodie). The rapper Lil Tjay, who recently was involved in an altercation at the Garden’s Hulu Theater, is “BANNED FROM MSG,” according to the database.

Five of the publicly identified attendees at Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s Madison Square Garden wedding were marked as “low risk”: the musicians Ice Spice, Selena Gomez, and Benson Boone, the TV host Michael Strahan, and the actor Mariska Hargitay.

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jul 8

😬

“Still, he warned me to drive straight home, park the Range Rover, and leave it there. If I were to cross into the neighboring town, I’d probably get flagged again and go through this entire ordeal again with a different set of officers. His parting words were ominous: “You’re lucky we’re in Plymouth. If you were in Minneapolis, they definitely would’ve come at you with guns drawn.””

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jul 8

1) That’s not how privacy works. 2) Facebook’s whole deal is trying to figure out how to con people into being a constant source of training data.

In one proposed system, raw footage and audio would not be stored by Meta or made available to the user, several people said. Instead, the metadata from that audio and images would be extracted and uploaded to the server for Meta’s AI to query, which proponents argue would have fewer privacy implications.
The company is also discussing whether data collected through the glasses and their features could be used to train its own AI models, as it pours billions into rivalling competition such as OpenAI, Google and Anthropic in the AI race.
Meta declined to comment on “internal prototypes” but said its approach focused on “privacy built in from the ground up”. The Information has previously reported some details about the super-sensing glasses project.

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jul 2

This is utter nonsense.

They said Orchestra does not place cameras in residential neighborhoods, and that people's faces are blurred into video feeds. Instead of using facial recognition, the system can identify anonymized people by details like clothing and shoes. The company does retain some of the raw footage, but said access is tightly restricted and never sold to customers.

"There's always been this tradeoff between security and privacy," Burciaga said. "But we are able to anonymize the data, so we're at a time when you can get all the good parts of the data without invading people's privacy."

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jun 29

My god. He admit it. www.msn.com/en-us/techno...

“Patrick Sheehan, vice president of value-based care at intelligent health devices company Withings, said wearables that measure the user’s health data have become “the cop on your wrist.”
“It’s an accountability driver,” said Sheehan, who spoke at the Fortune Brainstorm Tech conference in Aspen this month. “It doesn’t solve problems for you, but it tells you your problems.””

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jun 29

There’s no dystopian hardware these pubs won’t review as long as it’s a “tech” product. That the review acknowledges all the awful aspects imho makes it worse.

Ignoring the context, the Fury are arguably Meta’s best AI glasses yet. They’re cheaper at $299 instead of $379 for the Ray-Ban Meta Gen 2 AI glasses, and they do all of the same stuff, have all of the same hardware, plus some perks like adjustable nose pads and an action button.

Not ignoring all of the context, they’re still problematic for all of the myriad reasons I’ve outlined here and many, many, many times on Gizmodo. Do what you will with your own money and your own face, but the most I can feel about Meta’s Fury is conflicted. Is good hardware really worth wading into a privacy minefield? Or would you rather just wait for a company like Apple to help make things slightly less icky?

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jun 29

I’d be cool if I never ever saw another review like this. The fact that these companies are actively making everything worse is not independent of the fact that they also make hardware—it’s actually the same problem. gizmodo.com/meta-fury-ai...

The list goes on, and with everything I just laid out, there’s also one more thing I have to state. Despite all of the ickiness, surveillance dystopia, and glassholism that abounds with Meta’s smart glasses, seemingly one of the worst big tech companies (where ethics are concerned) still makes the best smart glasses money can buy.

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jun 29

🤔

Smith says technology is key to reducing fatal shootings. He acknowledges some of his proposals seem far out—but says it is only a matter of time before people see how quickly the technological landscape is shifting.

“Most businesses are going to move too slow, because nobody wants to be seen as crazy,” he said. “You just have to be a Kool-Aid drinker that’s like, ‘Hey, this exponential stuff is gonna pay off.’”

More than 18,000 law-enforcement agencies across 100 countries—including most major police departments in the U.S.—use Axon products, according to the company. Most pay an annual subscription for each officer. New tech, including virtual-reality training and drones, costs more.

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jun 27

Books already have a “previously in this book you are reading” function that works really well. www.engadget.com/2202142/kind...

Amazon pitches its new Recaps functions as something akin to the "previously on ..." segments of popular television shows. Readers can seamlessly return to their favorite series without missing a beat through "quick refreshers" of previous installments, including key plot points and character developments. It's important to note that these recaps are anything but spoiler-free. As someone who judges those that skip to the back of the book, the thought of accidentally reading a recap of a book I've yet to devour sends a cold shiver down my spine. Proceed with cautious.

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jun 27

This disingenuous argument consistently pops up—that people who consent to any surveillance are essentially agreeing to *all* surveillance. Consent doesn’t work that way, but also in the case of Flock, there is no way to opt out unless you never leave the house.

““As a Troy resident, I am appalled that our own mayor, our own administration, can essentially write off the rights of a significant portion of people who pay their salaries,” one speaker said.
Mayor Carmella Mantello said the technology has helped reduce crime and solve homicides, robberies and narcotics cases, plus recover missing persons and stolen cars.
“Guess what?” she said. “Your iPhone is more of a surveillance camera than the license plate readers.” She raised her own phone for emphasis, as residents holding signs grumbled that she was lying. The city council president banged the table for order. ”

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jun 27

Every one of these guys: Totalitarianism is good bro, trust me.

“Radical transparency is coming. A future where you can know anything, anytime, anywhere. A future where no one can hide,” he wrote on Substack. “We are wrapping the planet in an ‘Sensor Ecosystem’: a living, multi-layered sensing system that runs from the cameras in your home, to the phone in your pocket, to autonomous cars and humanoid robots on the ground, to drones and flying cars in the air, all the way up to a constellation of satellites imaging every square meter on the Earth every single day.”
Diamandis’ comments come roughly two years after Oracle founder Larry Ellison said something very similar. ”

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jun 26

Pocket computer will be replaced by face computer. Give us all your money because we are brilliant innovators.

What the future personal AI device will look like:
I am bullish on glasses. Humans are very comfortable with glasses. You turn your head, that’s where the camera is going to see what your eyes are seeing. They’re very close to your ear and very close to your mouth. You’re going to read something and the camera can read it. So glasses, I think, will be the primary form factor.

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jun 26

These people are so fucking boring.

There are some secret form factors that I cannot tell you about. We’re working with pretty much all of them, from OpenAI to Meta. You have different things that people wear—glasses is the easiest one to understand, but also jewelry, pins, and pendants.
For example, you’ll be walking around with glasses, and you’re going to see something you really like. You’ll say, “I’d like to buy this. How much is it on Amazon?” Or, “Can you render how I’m going to look with this on?” It’s going to be a different kind of low-friction experience, and workloads are going to start to shift. Certain things you’re going to do with an agent

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jun 26

Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.

We talk about agents a lot. With agents, we are going to see a new class of AI devices. Glasses, for example, are very natural—because if they understand what we say, what we hear, and what we see, glasses are very close to all those senses. They sit near your eyes, your ears, your mouth—it’s going to be very important context for agents to do things for you. So one of the features of 6G is, I need to have a network that everything I see can get streamed to the cloud at high performance and speed. All of us are going to be walking cameras.

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jun 24

Help me out here. How does clothing color help identify a family member? support.google.com/googlehome/a...

Whenever your camera detects a face, the activity is marked in your camera's recorded video in the Google Home app or Nest app.

When your camera detects an unfamiliar face, the app should ask whether it’s someone you know. You’ll have the option to save the person’s data in the familiar face library. This helps your camera recognize the face as someone you know.

We also use additional non-biometric signals (body size, clothing color, etc.) to help make Familiar Faces work better when a subject's face is not visible.

Hypervisible @hypervisible· Jun 23

Expecting Meta to deliver on promises to address privacy or the harms they enable is like waiting for the tomorrow that never comes. www.theverge.com/tech/954052/...