Riskable

Your argument boils down to this:

• This technology exists because you’ve worked with it.
• You want to ban it because it could be used by bad people to invade others privacy.
• The technology doesn’t actually exist.

You’re not making any sense.

The technology does exist and the software to do repair work with AR also exists: https://aidarsolutions.com/maintenance-augmented-reality/ (Just an example, there’s more companies that do it)

People are using AR for equipment repair every day. It would be fucking nice if every day people could take advantage of that using cheap glasses that include a camera and a display of some kind.

The only reason why there’s not open source projects for this is because the hardware is too expensive.

So you don’t trust individuals with cameras but you trust the government and businesses with them. Got it.

Get your mind out of the gutter!

Have you ever seen AR glasses demos where someone is inspecting an engine or repairing something? Imagine open source hardware projects being able to offer similar capabilities for any common household appliance. It would be amazing!

There’s infinite amazing and non-creepy uses for tech like this but it’ll never happen with unimaginative luddites everywhere!

WTF? Local models run on your local hardware without an Internet connection. Hence, they’re not giving any data to anyone except you.

Again, you’re assuming that the only thing with glasses and a camera that can exist will be sold and operated by Meta. This is not the case.

The only reason why there’s not much competition yet is the expense. Meta can sell the glasses at a discount because the wearer (and everyone/everything they look at) is what they’re actually selling.

Eventually there will be glasses running regular Linux that people can do with as they please. Then the real innovation will happen.

What is it with fascists and uniforms? Especially uniforms like this?

Your arguments are all against cameras recording people in public. That has nothing at all to do with AI. Local or not.

Local AI models do solve the privacy issue of everyone and everything being recorded, classified, and becoming permanently searchable for Meta and via any request they get from law enforcement, sketchy government entities, or anyone that’s willing to pay for it.

Why does it need to be obvious?

In the US, everyone has the right to record what’s happening in public. Private settings are different, of course.

I know we’re talking about Europe here but I’m genuinely curious how it improves things to make it “obvious” other than annoying legitimate users and doing nothing at all to people who actually want to record people in secret.

Basically, it sounds like the pointless cookie warnings all over again.

Yep. And?

Just like today: You have no idea if that person has a hidden camera or a gun or anything else dangerous or what their intentions are.

Yet another reason why local AI models are so important.

You don’t need to be sending people’s faces to a super sketchy dossier-building company like Meta when you can just do face/object recognition locally on the device.

This tech can be life-changing for people who are visually impaired. I would hate to see it banned just because the first adopter is an evil corporation.