Why is this shit legal...
this post was submitted on 08 May 2026
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they saw the outrage at meta glasses and decided "I need this"
Finally, someone solved the age old problem of ears not seeing well enough
...users can query Siri about, like asking the AI assistant what they should cook with the ingredients they have in front of them ... may also use the cameras to help with things like turn-by-turn directions.
Those are some pretty underwhelming use-cases. I can't see the world beating a path to anyone's door for that. Even if you were so excited about these features that you were willing to overlook the privacy concerns, it seems like the phone you've already got would probably be just fine as a conduit for such services.
Take a picture of your fridge with a better angle than your ears have.
Use GPS.
Done. I held up my GPS-enabled smart phone I paid $50 for 10 years ago to my eye line, better yet I was able to get a real-time preview of the angle of the picture to ensure everything's in shot.
Surely it will all run on the phone anyway
And if we're not ignoring the privacy concerns these use cases are definitely not worth putting everyone in front of you under this form of surveillance for a US tech giant and ultimately the US government. The price for society to pay is way too high.
If your phone is too much of a pain to get out of your pocket, surely a watch or bracelet is a better form factor for this.
Well yeah but they've already reached saturation with their watches so now they need a new product to sell you
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Fuck right off, dipshits.
What really sucks about this is that there's a version of us in the infinite multiverses where these companies and politicians develop and maintain trust so that we can actually benefit from some of these innovations without just feeling paranoid and taken advantage of, but instead, in their hubris, they make us hate them and their tech.
This is the truth. I got a free Oura ring and I would love to try it, but they're in bed with palantir. Fuck that.
So many interesting developments, but I'm unwilling to sell my soul to the devil to try them. What a dream it would be to use them without worrying that they're going to sell every possible bit of data about me to the lowest bidder.
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Oh, brilliant! This is exactly what I wanted and directly solves so many problems and frustrations I have with the status quo! Thank goodness for such innovation! I feel seen!
Edit: oops, that should say "I hope everyone involved in bringing this product to market gets given an STI by a hippopotamus". Silly autocorrect.
~~"autocorrect"~~ AI
~~"autocorrect"~~ ~~AI~~ glorified autocorrect…
Wait
every day brings another reason for me to just stay in my fucking room
Wait until you're an adult. Staying in your room turns into never leave the house
i'm well over 45. thankfully got my "midlife crisis" out of the way in my 20s, before fullblown fascist surveillance police state happened. don't need to go anywhere, i'm set
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A solution in search of a problem
Ewwwww.
I can literally throw a rock outside and hit someone in the head wearing some type of headphones. There are tons of options out there.
AirPods aren't impressive and Apple isn't focused on exciting their customers like they were a decade ago. My old Apple Watch died recently and I replaced it with another brand. Be loyal to Apple the same way they are loyal to you.
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I like AirPods (Pro) but this is a real no-go (for me). If this really gets pushed and in the stores, will not purchase them.
I wish companies would just get away with AI and unnecessary crap like this.
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Well atleast I know who to avoid once they are available.
No more using my headphones for masturbation. 😆
You'd just be paying it forward. Ten minutes after you watch some girl's roommate jilling off, she's watching you crank your meat handle.
Hard pass and also don’t have $400 for shit that’s not going to hold a battery charge for long.
Even if I wanted AI in my AirPods, how is this gonna work for people with long hair? This makes no sense.
A resolution low enough to be able to identify "ingredients they have in front of them". And they're also planning to launch smart glasses (read: spyglasses) and AI pendants (read: consumer bodycams), as to be able to compete with Meta and OpenAI (with regards to harvesting data without consent?) But I guess you first introduce them into one of your most widely-adopted wearable, where the high probability of people being spied on, isn't as obvious compared to relatively uncommon spyglasses or bodycams.
The AirPods’ cameras “aren’t designed” to snap photos or video but instead can take in “visual information in low resolution” that users can query Siri about, like asking the AI assistant what they should cook with the ingredients they have in front of them, according to Gurman. They may also use the cameras to help with things like turn-by-turn directions.
That doesn't sound "low-resolution" to me. Also, does anyone really trust them not to record the camera feed? It needs to be sent to the cloud for this thing to work, they're going to record it, and nothing is ever deleted.
Just because the user isn't given the images, doesn't mean the video isnt' recorded.
Not necessarily, you could compute embeddings on device, but that requires decent compute.
And embeddings are reversible and don’t preserve privacy. It’s not meaningfully better than video.
It's Apple, it will most likely run "on device" - so the iPhone the airpods are connected to in this case
"Aren't designed to" is very different from "designed not to".
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No.
People would enjoy these features. But they want it to happen without a camera, somehow.
So they are supposedly verboten features. Never to be done.
who's going to use this when it makes the battery life almost nothing?
my ear buds are good enough but still only last for so long just listening over Bluetooth. two way conversation makes them drain even faster... two way plus video? come on!