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Meta’s creepiest lawsuit in recent years will make you rethink its AI smart glasses

Digital Trends·Manisha Priyadarshini·about 1 month ago
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Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses are at the center of yet another controversy. A Kenyan AI training firm called Sama, which Meta used to help train its AI, saw its contract abruptly terminated shortly after its workers came forward with deeply troubling allegations (via BBC ). The workers claim they were repeatedly exposed to graphic content captured through Meta’s glasses, and now more than a thousand of them have lost their jobs. The disturbing footage behind Meta’s AI training Sama’s workers were data annotators, a role that involves manually labeling video content to teach Meta’s AI how to interpret images. They also reviewed transcripts of Meta AI conversations to make sure the chatbot was giving accurate responses. What they didn’t sign up for, allegedly, was reviewing footage of people having sex or using the toilet, all filmed through Meta’s glasses without users’ knowledge. In one account, a man’s glasses were left recording in a bedroom, capturing his wife undressing.…

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