Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content

ifwinterco•about 1 hour ago

Either Mark Zuckerberg is playing an elaborate practical joke on everyone, or this is further proof that the West Coast tech scene has become such a bubble people have lost all sense of how ordinary people think.

There is just no way this was going to fly in 2026 given high and increasing negative sentiment globally towards tech, and I'm not sure what made them think otherwise

cj•17 minutes ago

Meanwhile, Tesla drivers are driving around with a dozen cameras mounted on their vehicle pointing in every direction.

Who would have thought that would be socially acceptable in 2026.

zhoBEENG•29 minutes ago

In the US, Meta sold 7 million glasses units last year and is projected to sell 25+ million next year. Waymos already record everything happening in most of the area of many cities, and use much more than just cameras. 6g standard has sensing built in. Perhaps it is not the West Coast that is in the bubble.

solarkraft•20 minutes ago

Waymos don’t precisely harass women and upload the footage to their instagram feed

Symbiote•about 1 hour ago

I think a small speaker should announce, in the local language, "recording in progress" when these are used.

concinds•about 2 hours ago

I wish regulators who failed to ban these things got even half of the backlash. It's not an individual issue.

skor•about 4 hours ago

what you put in, you get out https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/juliareinstein/facemash

tjpnz•about 3 hours ago

Epstein Glasses is also a good name for them. Glasses for people who don't do consent.

RobMurray•about 2 hours ago

Can we maybe blame the people who use them irresponsibly instead of blaming the technology? These glasses have been a life changer for so many visually impaired people.

graceful6800•42 minutes ago

Sure, we can all agree that crushing puppies is a bad thing, but you should blame the people using the puppy crusher 9000 to crush puppies and not the technology itself. After all, it's made an amazing profit for shareholders!

Sometimes a thing is bad in and of itself. A thing designed specifically and explicitly to do bad things is still bad even if it helps a small number of people.

syrrim•24 minutes ago

I don't think that product exists, and I think an ordinary trash compactor would be far more likely to be used instead. Should we blame the people compressing their garbage for all the people crushing puppies?

solarkraft•16 minutes ago

If there is a repeated, ongoing problem with a lot of people using the devices to crush puppies, the manufacturers would be expected to come up with ways to make this less likely to happen (safety measures etc).

And if that didn’t help, there might be a push to limit access to these machines because clearly a too significant part of the population is unable to use them responsibly.

Influencers face backlash over Meta 'pervert glasses' content

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