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Multiple readings Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions
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Meta glasses face recognition rollout

Meta Silently Added Face-Recognition Code for Its Smart Glasses to Millions of Phones

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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · dell cameron
“While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers and store them locally. (Meta says it isn't building a central face database.) w…” evidence ↗
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Justin Hendrix Kashmir Hill dell cameron evacide Katie Drummond Eileen Clancy 🧿 Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue Andrew Couts +4
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“The Meta Ray-Ban creep glasses already have facial-recognition capabilities--Meta just hasn't enabled them yet. www.wired.com/story/meta-s...”

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“While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers and store them locally. (Meta says it isn't building a central face database.) w…”

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dell cameron: NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
Justin Hendrix: NEW: WIRED analyzed Meta's AI app and found NameTag — a hidden facial recognition system designed to identify people via the wearer's smart glasses — has already shipped to over 50 million phones.
dell cameron: While dormant, three AI models — for face detection, cropping, and encoding — have been pushed from Meta's servers. The system is designed to pull faceprints from those servers and store them local…
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Why this matches Building & implementation reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Mary Branscombe
“Everyone has the same hockey stick graphs on code activity as GitHub and is making decisions about how to deal with that and ship the best code they can at the right speed. Buildkite is one way to shift those decisions left: they just need to figure out how…” evidence ↗
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“Everyone has the same hockey stick graphs on code activity as GitHub and is making decisions about how to deal with that and ship the best code they can at the right speed. Buildkite is one way to shift those decisions left: they just need to figure out how…”

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3 experts · 11 posts · 8d ago
e.w. niedermeyer Mary Branscombe Amy Hoy
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“idk. the only real benefit of the book is there's more story (some of the stuff in the movie didn't make sense bc they had to cut out a lot) and there's more rocky (he's more developed in the book …” evidence ↗
e.w. niedermeyer: finally saw "Project Hail Mary" this weekend without knowing anything about it other than that it was written by the guy who wrote "The Martian," and wow I was not prepared for how hilariously goof…
Amy Hoy: this is a case of "movie > book except in a couple ways"
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2 experts · 3 posts · 10d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Mary Branscombe
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“I mean, how are we supposed to trust the ethical compass of AI researchers and developers who stay on the Nazi csam site? I call it X because it sure isn’t twitter any more” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
Mary Branscombe: I mean, how are we supposed to trust the ethical compass of AI researchers and developers who stay on the Nazi csam site? I call it X because it sure isn’t twitter any more
Eugene Vinitsky: I think I'm pretty much explicitly trying not to draw such a strong moral claim. I think for most people it, somewhat rationally, feels like a small harm
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