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[–] TheTurner@lemmy.zip 1 points 19 hours ago

It'll be like Ghost in the Shell, but not cool or cyberpunky.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 50 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I don't want an advantage. I want to sit on a log in the forest, listen to the birds chirp, and eat snacks.

Go zuck yourself fuckerberg

[–] omniman@piefed.zip 2 points 1 day ago
[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 85 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Zuckerberg can keep his dystopian digital world and shove it. My digital world is free of surveillance and doesn't require AI anything - let alone glasses.

[–] higgsboson@piefed.social 9 points 2 days ago (1 children)

My digital world is free of surveillance

I dig the sentiment, but here you are posting via ActivityPub which by its very design is not going to be free of surveillance. Corporations are scarfing our comments up to train their shitty LLMs.

You probably also send other people emails and text, after which you no longer control what happens with your message.

[–] cabbage@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Training LLMs is not surveillance. As long as the platform doesn't need to know who I am I'm good.

(Though I wish it wasn't used by capitalists for anything, obviously)

[–] baconmonsta@piefed.social 62 points 2 days ago

That's exactly what someone selling AI glasses would say

[–] reddig33@lemmy.world 41 points 2 days ago

Zuck says a lot of things. Reprinting his sales pitches as news is a disservice.

[–] Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Rich man who had [stole] one good idea desperately tries to sell his next stupid product.

[–] untorquer@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

This the cognitive disadvantage you're speaking of?

[–] ceenote@lemmy.world 37 points 2 days ago

"Anyone who's not in the metaverse will be at a disadvantage in the future"

-Zuck, a while back, probably.

[–] AmazingAwesomator@lemmy.world 39 points 2 days ago (3 children)

The glasses let users listen to music, take photos or videos, and ask Meta AI questions...

so... there is no benefit to wearing them.

i would love a new technology that does something groundbreaking (though only if it has an open source equivalent; im not buying anything from facebook), but this doesnt seem like it.

[–] bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

There's hardly anything left. Anything developed now is for BUSINESS LINE GO UP ADD MORE FEATURES because its all been done, we have perfected computing 15 years ago. All this is just slop features for the rich to get richer off our data. Every single new tech "innovation" is for surveillance and capitalism/fascism.

Really the iPhone was the last actual innovative tech thing to be "invented". The only thing left now is better energy production, and maybe health advances.

[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 day ago

I agree tech bro wise completely. But there's all sorts of Engineering strides to come still. Plenty we don't yet know about.

But computing has been a solved problem for many years on all but the most intense levels. Since then silicon valley has been desperately trying to hang on to their former glory days like a has-been football player in his 50s

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Something tells me that Meta's smart glasses won't have a billboard, signage and poster blocking feature....

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[–] Agrajag@scribe.disroot.org 29 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Kiss your privacy goodbye when someone with these on looks at you if you're not wearing a mask, you've just been geolocated.

Also as soon as Apple copies this you are going to see them everywhere in the West, the only thing holding it back now is no one cares about a Meta product.

[–] capuccino@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I always remember this strip

[–] etherphon@piefed.world 14 points 2 days ago

The world is going to be so boring when everyone is walking around with these things, even more oblivious and in their own worlds, with all the answers right there. No need to even speak to anyone anymore except for small talk and who likes that? I'm not going to be a walking surveillance robot which is what I really feel is the end game with this crap, zero privacy.

[–] Frogmanfromlake@hexbear.net 12 points 2 days ago

I’ve been hearing this for a while now. Wasn’t the same thing said about Google glass?

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 17 points 2 days ago (1 children)

no we fucking wont because nobody but the dumbest motherfuckers on earth who have disposable income are gonna buy them. what are we going to be disadvantaged at? we’re going to be able to actually use our eyeballs and not have zuckerberg feed us VR ads every 30 seconds

this stupid pig isnt in any governmental position so all i gotta say is i hope someone stabs him or blows his stupid ass up. worthless fucking idiot

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

We'll be at the disadvantage of Nazis and palantir.

[–] godlessworm@hexbear.net 3 points 2 days ago (1 children)

once nazis get widespread VR they’re going to get lost in the gooniverse and spend 24/7 jerking off to nazi catgirl porn

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[–] ambitious_bones@lemmy.world 17 points 2 days ago

Metaverse? Smart Glasses? Didn't this nonsense come and go ten years ago?

[–] segfault11@hexbear.net 16 points 2 days ago

clown shoes salesman says people without clown shoes will be at a disadvantage in the future

[–] machiabelly@hexbear.net 10 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

This is assuming that people get advantage from knowledge, expertise, and competency. In reality advantage comes from conforming to social norms, connections/nepotism/networking, race/class/sexuality, being able bodied and neurotypical, and having a personality that lends itself towards being organized, goal oriented, routine oriented, and more easily tolerating drudgery.

People aren't going to do this because social connections give more power than knowledge and people are weirded out by this shit. What might actually happen is that certain employers may force their employees to wear similar technology for some reason.

for some reason

to increase employee productivity, we are now using computer vision (CV) and machine learning (ML) to measure the flow rate of your piss and shit, which will allow us to better synergize with our employees by helping them manage their restroom breaks more efficiently.

[–] blargle@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider; these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all of the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time."

[–] Pulptastic@midwest.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] frank@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What book? The passage above seems great. Kind of Terry Pratchett–esque

[–] gedhrel@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago
[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago

And people without a million dollars in the bank will be disadvantaged in the future too, but here we are.

[–] Suoko@feddit.it 13 points 2 days ago

I'd actually prefer to see Godot games/apps for cardboard developed, now that's so easy to do it

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 4 points 1 day ago

Going by the thumbnail, it looks like an ad from MAD magazine for spy glasses.

Oh wait…

[–] notso@feddit.org 7 points 2 days ago

I don't know. Not getting punched in the face has it's advantages.

[–] chaos@beehaw.org 7 points 2 days ago

Not just a disadvantage, a cognitive disadvantage. @grok is this true?????????? my critical thinking skills have atrophied to nothing now that i rely on ai, i need u gronk

[–] Zacryon@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago

Something something, Sugarmountain tries to push a project again that will probably fail, like so many before.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Remind me how many hot dinners he could have fed starving children instead of funding the Metaverse project?

[–] npdean@lemmy.today 2 points 1 day ago

Zero. Because he would have donated the money to a war mongering state instead.

[–] Cricket@lemmy.zip 6 points 2 days ago

(slaps forehead) Of course! People without AI glasses will miss out on all those free knuckle sandwiches that people with AI glasses will be offered everywhere they go!

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 6 points 2 days ago

Get fucked, Zuck.

[–] TomMasz@piefed.social 6 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I recently saw someone post that the stuff Zuck comes up with shows has no friends. I'm starting to believe that to be true.

[–] Teal@lemmy.zip 7 points 2 days ago

What the hell does he know about real life and disadvantages? I’ll be without them for life. At least anything Meta or the like have a hand in. Poor me. 😄

[–] Hestia@hexbear.net 4 points 2 days ago

Ok grok, give my boss big badonkadonks

[–] MTK@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

I have perfect eye sight, can they make a buttplug version?

[–] Lemminary@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago

Is not being shoved ads in my face a disadvantage?

I'll be fine without your stupid glasses douche bag, thanks anyway

[–] dkr567@hexbear.net 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

He can go fuck himself in his own metaverse if that hasn't been shut down yet.

[–] Feyd@programming.dev 3 points 2 days ago

And why should anyone care what he says?

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