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Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation (techcrunch.com)
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cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/33445279

Two former Harvard students are launching a pair of “always-on” AI-powered smart glasses that listen to, record, and transcribe every conversation and then display relevant information to the wearer in real time. 

“Our goal is to make glasses that make you super intelligent the moment you put them on,” said AnhPhu Nguyen, co-founder of Halo, a startup that’s developing the technology. 

Or, as his co-founder Caine Ardayfio put it, the glasses “give you infinite memory.” 

“The AI listens to every conversation you have and uses that knowledge to tell you what to say … kinda like IRL Cluely,” Ardayfio told TechCrunch, referring to the startup that claims to help users “cheat” on everything from job interviews to school exams.

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[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 26 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

While Meta’s glasses have an indicator light when their cameras and microphones are watching and listening as a mechanism to warn others that they are being recorded, Ardayfio said that the Halo glasses, dubbed Halo X, do not have an external indicator to warn people of their customers’ recording. “For the hardware we’re making, we want it to be discreet, like normal glasses,” said Ardayfio, who added that the glasses record every word, transcribe it, and then delete the audio file. Privacy advocates are warning about the normalization of covert recording devices in public.... Under the hood, the smart glasses use Google’s Gemini and Perplexity as its chatbot engine, according to the two co-founders. Gemini is better for math and reasoning, whereas they use Perplexity to scrape the internet, they said.

These evil af people.

[–] ghostlychonk@lemmy.world 12 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

This will be extra fun when it hits two-party consent states and lawsuits roll out.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 4 points 2 hours ago

"no reasonable expectation of privacy" in public spaces. Then you have multi-member living spaces. One member is against, others are for.

[–] TheAgeOfSuperboredom@lemmy.ca 10 points 4 hours ago

Don't worry, they're probably going to he big and stupid looking in reality. Plus, the obnoxious AI bro wearing them will be easy to identify.