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Meta takes down a critical video about meta AI Glasses after filming at Meta

632 points · 395 comments · pieterr

yread · 1790244366 · focus · HN ↗
If anyone wants to see the video: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHKhYL3is5o" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHKhYL3is5o
He did harass them a bit. I'm looking forward to Meta taking down all videos where someone is a bit harassed. Internet will be a much nicer place!
1. embedding-shape · 1790248932 · focus · HN ↗
  > He did harass them a bit.
  Maybe I'm too European to understand, where exactly is harassment occurring? He's asking Meta employees questions, doesn't seem to follow them around, and when they walk away or say no, he doesn't exactly force them to stay or anything? Doesn't there have to be some intimidation or humiliation or similar for it to be harassment? Or asking employees what they think of the products they develop and support is the harassment part?
  1. pbasista · 1790254444 · focus · HN ↗
    Arguing about whether to call this kind of behavior a harassment or "a bit" of a harassment is in my opinion all besides the point.
    This video mainly shows a person approaching other people in public and recording them with these glasses. Which is one of the typical scenarios in which such a glasses are probably going to be used. And that video shows that even the Meta employees themselves generally do not seem to like it very much.
    That is the point.
    pc86 · 1790254873 · focus · HN ↗
    I don't know if I agree that man-on-the-street pseudo journalistic stuff is one of the "typical scenarios." Any time I see a product like this I think:
    1) Can I use it to watch a more immersive movie without bothering people who may be in the next week? 2) Can I use it to make my games more enjoyable, either console or PC? 3) Can I use it to record IPSC/USPSA matches? 4) Can I use it for work?
    I don't think these will make more people bother strangers on the street, it's just another way the same people can do that.
    rurp · 1790262411 · focus · HN ↗
    That's fine for you, but why on earth do you think every other person out there will only use these for innocuous nerdy reasons? Ask any adult woman you know and there's a good chance she will have at least one story of being stalked or getting really creeped out by someone. Consumer tech that enables creepy behavior will be used in that way by too many people.
    pc86 · 1790268000 · focus · HN ↗
    > why on earth do you think every other person out there will only use these for innocuous nerdy reasons?
    I don't, which I why I didn't say that :)
    bamboozled · 1790254967 · focus · HN ↗
    Do you know how harnessed I feel by people wearing pervert glasses around my kids?
    IncreasePosts · 1790263879 · focus · HN ↗
    You've got guys like this just doing it on their cell phone, imagine how excited they are for the glasses: <a href="https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-prosecutor-fired-accused-filming-young-girl-inside-target" rel="nofollow">https://www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona-prosecutor-fired-a...
    raydev · 1790289345 · focus · HN ↗
    We already have thousands of videos made by way more hostile people, who test the patience of people in public and even get themselves occasionally arrested, and they're very obviously holding cameras and shoving those cameras in people's faces.
    I'm not sure how it follows that glasses will encourage more of that behavior.

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