I hope they will be banned in EU.
Endlessly asking AI what to do will cause people to lose the ability to think analytically.
That’s already the case, time to make it worse
Everyone’s losing their shit over an additional sensor. Does everyone think their phone is constantly recording video because it has a camera on it, the same with the microphone? Laptops?
Maybe if it was Meta? I don’t think Apple’s business model incentivises personally identifiable spying or keeping any recordings outside of their standard analytics and “improvements” model.
They have been caught being pretty ham fisted with using third parties to process this data (eg. Siri recordings), so I wouldn’t put it past them for any of these anonymised recordings to fall into anyone’s hands really, but that’s why you can now turn them off.
Which I would immediately do. I would never buy these anyway, and it sounds like a terrible idea, but some of this freaking out is giving them way too much credit.
Yes. Maybe not constantly, but without your consent.
If the 3 letter agencies are telling you to cover your webcam and Aliexpress is starting to sell phone and tablet camera cover stickers then I fully believe it’s a problem.
Apple is also developing smart glasses and an AI pendant that could launch as soon as early 2027, according to Gurman.
Nobody asked for this. This AI push is stagnating innovation.
Also, link is paywalled. https://removepaywalls.com/https://www.theverge.com/tech/926376/apple-airpods-cameras-ai-production
This AI push is stagnating innovation.
I think it’s the other way around, corporate consolidation (including capturing our governments and getting all research funding) killed innovation a while ago and now AI is just the latest non-idea that is being used to cover up that none of the corporations have any new ideas. Even Apple’s latest good idea, ARM laptops, was basically done by cheap Linux nettops a decade ago.
Also, ARM laptops were Steve Jobs’ last big idea. He put in place Apple’s last 10 year plan before he died. The first M series laptop came out nine years after his death.
The reason being that Apple is actually considered to be one of the founding members of ARM so they have unique access to the core. Moving to ARM was always the plan after moving to Intel. Apple was the first company to produce a portable ARM device, the Newton back in the early 90s before Jobs’ return.
So even that innovation isn’t exactly new.
they saw the outrage at meta glasses and decided “I need this”
A solution in search of a problem
Ewwwww.
Fuck. Tom Scott was right.
Well atleast I know who to avoid once they are available.
No more using my headphones for masturbation. 😆
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.
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.
I already assume that everything that goes into a cloud somewhere WILL be used for other purposes, at the very least as AI training material, and this will be no different. And the plan is for at least some (possibly all?) video to automatically be extracted to some kind of cloud storage, no matter how temporarily. From the article:
The AirPods will have a “small” LED light to indicate when “visual data is being fed into the cloud.”
That’s a hell of a non-answer to all the privacy concerns Apple already knows the public has. Since this entire article is itself just a manufacturer-friendly puff piece for pre-release promotion, the only conclusion I can draw is that Apple is willfully holding back the specifics on all of that.
And again with the fucking notification light, like that’s the solution to all privacy concerns. On AirPods a light can’t possibly be more than a pinhole itself, just because of the size of the device, so that’ll be even worse than Meta’s joke of a notification light.
No.
I want this in the same way I want a web browser on my toaster. So glad people like me finally getting our way.
So now I have to stab every person wearing airpods if I don’t want to be spied on by the Five Eyes intelligence agencies?
Every day I’m thankful US tech is less and less popular outside the west.
