Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses

Well yeah. The people who buy these things are disturbing individuals. Kinda goes with the territory.

The reality can be messy. Meta contractors based in Nairobi, Kenya, told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten in a recently published joint investigation that they’re being told to review highly sensitive and intimate data.

“In some videos you can see someone going to the toilet, or getting undressed,” one contractor for a company called Sama said. “I don’t think they know, because if they knew they wouldn’t be recording.”

“I saw a video where a man puts the glasses on the bedside table and leaves the room,” one data annotator told the newspapers. “Shortly afterwards his wife comes in and changes her clothes.”

Other footage included imagery of people’s bank cards, users watching porn, or even filming entire “sex scenes.”

An employee added that they felt forced to watch and annotate or else risk losing their job.

“You understand that it is someone’s private life you are looking at, but at the same time you are just expected to carry out the work,” the employee said. “You are not supposed to question it. If you start asking questions, you are gone.”

Buried in Meta’s AI terms of use, the company reserves the right to have the company “review your interactions with AIs, including the content of your conversations with or messages to AIs, and this review can be automated or manual (human).”

The document also warned that users shouldn’t share information that “you don’t want the AIs to use and retain, such as information about sensitive topics.”

But given the kind of information data annotators are being asked to review, many users don’t appear to be aware of that last piece of advice.

Worst of all, owners of Meta’s AI glasses simply don’t have the option of making use of the AI features without agreeing to share data shared with Meta’s remote servers. And once the data is sent, it’s already often too late.

So it’s just corporate invasion of privacy all over again.

Why would Meta workers need to see anything from these cameras *at all*?

These things should probably be banned, and Facebook dissolved with its leadership punished for their crimes.

And they do nothing about it

If you’re dumb enough to spend hundreds of dollars on a Facebook spy camera that you wear on your face, you get what’s coming to you, as far as I’m concerned.

why are they seeing anything at all? oh wait it’s fuckerberg, never mind

The fact that there are contractors reviewing my footage would be enough to stop me from buying them even if I didn’t already hate em.

OFC they are

If you are dumb enough to use glasses like these, you deserve it. Who would ever trust Meta of all companies with everything you see and hear?

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There was an article yesterday that said that Meta employees get all of the footage too. So no private time while wearing them.

It should be socially acceptable to punch these fuckers in the face. How do I recognize those glasses?

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You think you own things. How quaint.

I am SHOCKED