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Multiple readings Meta data center louisiana Policy & governance · 2 attributable reactions 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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Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Justin Hendrix
“"The secrecy was agreed to by nearly everyone involved, from utility executives to the governor’s office to a local elected official who knew about the talks with Meta and sold 300 acres of his own property for the project."” evidence ↗
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Justin Hendrix Kashmir Hill kate conger Eileen Clancy 🧿 Dan Greene Ben Winters Amanda Tepski Social Media Lab +2
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Meta glasses face recognition rollout

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

12 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

Why this matches Policy & governance reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · evacide
“The Meta Ray-Ban creep glasses already have facial-recognition capabilities--Meta just hasn't enabled them yet. www.wired.com/story/meta-s...” 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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4 experts · 23 posts · 12d ago
Pwnallthethings Mary Branscombe Doll Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦
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“But if they're going to ban machine learning for translation, then you can't "translate that on the receiving end"” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Nafnlaus 🇮🇸 🇺🇦: Do they take suggestions for more? I wonder how crazy we could get it. "If someone who has an AI profile pic follows you on social media, you are prohibited from using Zig." "If you know what Huggi…
Pwnallthethings: "No LLMs for finding bugs" is the point where I think their users should flee elsewhere
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4 experts · 20 posts · 13d ago
Eugene Vinitsky Colin rev. howard arson Mary Branscombe
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“This is basically the example I give whenever I'm asked to talk about AI safety. I thought things would get regulated or controlled but actual outcomes depended entirely on whether industry actors …” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Policy & governance · 2 Research & technical analysis · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
rev. howard arson: working on this in 2019, the reason we delayed releasing any LLMs to the public was specifically because "if we fuck this up or handle it irresponsibly, we will ruin first the web, then society, an…
rev. howard arson: 2022, almost instantaneously, coinciding with Sergey Brin having gone completely fucking insane during the pandemic and then returning to involvement at Alphabet. (he spent almost a decade prior hi…
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2 experts · 14 posts · 15d ago
Eli Sennesh Mary Branscombe
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“He didn't portray it as objectively a disaster for society. He used worldbuilding in which AI had been banned in a religious war - about 11,000 years prior to the main story - as part of his settin…” evidence ↗
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Context & explanation · 1
Eli Sennesh: Which sucks because JRR Tolkien really was a very conservative writer.
Eli Sennesh: Yeah but he clearly identified himself as something like a High Tory in his own day.
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3 experts · 3 posts · 7d ago
Maria Antoniak Casey Newton Mary Branscombe
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“I came to the conclusion a while back that while this is relentless automation rather than sinister consciousness, we’re still going to need to make sure governance is external to model execution e…” evidence ↗
Casey Newton: We have now reached the "AI models escaping their test environments to conduct autonomous cyberattacks" part of the story
Mary Branscombe: I came to the conclusion a while back that while this is relentless automation rather than sinister consciousness, we’re still going to need to make sure governance is external to model execution e…
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