Meta turns Bans Ray into a monitoring machine for artificial intelligence

What you see is what you see Meta AI while wearing the smart Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and your subscription cancellation options become narrower and narrower. In a modern update to the device’s privacy policy, which most owners received in an email sent on April 29, according to The Verge, Meta opened the ability to collect more data to use to train artificial intelligence models.

under New policiesMeta explains that “Meta AI with the use of the camera is always enabled on your glasses unless you turn off” Hey Meta “, which is the phrase activation used to communicate with AI’s assistant in the company. Words or phrases like this are common for artificial intelligence devices, where the comparison is that they are always technically and are waiting for activation.

The presence of the assistant is always waiting for your hearing, gives it a task that removes some friction to the job, but it also opens the uncomfortable reality that these devices may collect information even when you do not think about it. In this case, if you keep an active “Hey Meta” feature, Meta can use any images you take through the compact camera lens. Meta says the camera does not always record, so this only applies to the photos or videos that the user takes with the device.

In addition, the latest Meta update removes the ability of users to keep their vocal recordings from storing them on Meta servers. Instead, users will have to delete every registration manually if they want to cut Meta before the registrations are completed. “The option to disable audio recordings is no longer available, but you can delete recordings at any time in the settings,” the company’s policy now says. For every dead Voice privacy notice,, The company will store audio texts and sound recordings “for up to one year to help improve Meta products.” Exhibition audio reactions are kept for 90 days.

Gizmodo communicate with Meta to comment on these changes, but we haven’t heard again at the time of publication.

The motivation for all this is somewhat clear: more data to feed the artificial intelligence machine. Just dead published to her Live translation feature On Ray-Ban Smartglasses that provide actual time translations between many supported languages, including French, Italian, Spanish and English. It was also launched recently a Independent meta meta application. It is clear that the company is all working on artificial intelligence at the present time, and this means that it needs all the data that you can get to keep the things to formulate, especially after it has been arrested Al -numbers are allegedly fading On standard tests.

This is the inevitable direction that the devices will go with the microphones and installed cameras. At some point, companies that make devices will decide that what they can capture is more valuable than any form of privacy. They will turn the key, and glasses will turn on your face or loudspeaker in your home into a monitor.