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College students used Meta’s smart glasses to dox people in real time - The Verge

www.theverge.com/2024/10/2/24260262/ray-ban-meta-smart-glasses-doxxing-privacy

What Jamie wrote

The video embedded in the post from X is a good watch. A few years ago there was a similar test done where college students were asked if they could take a picture of them and they instantly identified the person with nothing else. This is extending that into a live view in glasses.

"The purpose of building this tool is not for misuse, and we are not releasing it," Nguyen and Ardafiyo write in a document explaining the project. Instead, the students say their goal is to raise awareness that all this isn't some dystopian future -- it's all possible now with existing technology. In particular, they point out that I-XRAY is unique because large language models (LLMs) enable it to work automatically, drawing relationships between names and photos from vast data sources.

How strange to consider a future where you can look at someone and know this level of information about them immediately.