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submitted 1 month ago by Vittelius@feddit.org to c/fuck_ai@lemmy.world

Since Meta launched its AI-powered Ray-Bans, which can record video and audio as well as make calls, there’s been a growing privacy backlash against the specs, with many dubbing them “pervert” glasses after they were reportedly used to film people without their consent. (...)

Never one to miss an opportunity to take a public swipe at big tech, the alternative search engine DuckDuckGo has now launched a new range of glasses in collaboration with the San Diego firm Knockaround (...)

The twist: with their permanent offline mode, zero cameras and mics, no AI or electronics of any kind, the “California cool” Paso Robles have been hailed as "the world's most innovative anti-surveillance sunglasses," AKA "Normal F***ing Sunglasses” according to Knockaround’s website.

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[-] nkat2112@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 month ago

with many dubbing them “pervert” glasses after they were reportedly used to film people without their consent.

This was entirely predictable, and it's remarkable that Meta could not foresee the PR nightmare.

Good on DuckDuckGo and Knockaround. Also, the marketing is brilliant.

[-] DementedSociety@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago

Meta is completely aware of the pr nightmare this would cause. They don't care. Collecting data at literally any cost is their business. No cost is too high.

[-] Jason2357@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

The company founded on the idea of creating a non-consentual database of pictures of fuckable girls in collage is somehow not concerned with marketing pervert glasses? Colour me surprised.

[-] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 month ago

Thought they would be like glasses with IR emitters around them sp your face is washed-out.

[-] LycanGalen@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago

Whelp, looks like I have a new project.

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

won't work so well unfortunately.

LEDs are typically powered via PWM which can be easily ignored through shutter speeds.

I suppose you could have three differently timed sets of LEDs at randomly overlapping frames. though that itself would be difficult to maintain due to loose coupling and synchronization. you can see it happen with metronomes. electrical oscillators are similar and can be effected by other nearby components.

Couldn't you just power them 100% of the time?

[-] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

sure, but the only reason why LEDs are energy efficient is because of the PWM. they're also designed to only operate at engineered runtimes too.

so not only will you need larger more energy dense batteries to run them, you'll also only get half or even quarter the runtime out of them for running them at 100% of their runtime spec.

[-] LycanGalen@lemmy.world 1 points 1 month ago

This is similar to the swiss cheese theory for masking. It doesn't have to be perfect. There just needs to be enough on at any given time to distort the image. Add a couple bonus sets if we're concerned with an entire set losing sync.

[-] dumnezero@piefed.social 1 points 1 month ago

Same. I want to test one of those.

[-] bpalmerau@aussie.zone 1 points 1 month ago

Take my fucking money (I know, they sold out in a day).

[-] pammyfromthesticks@mander.xyz 1 points 1 month ago

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