With how society has reacted to the meta glasses, it has me wondering about optical implants. They’re going to be here eventually, and presumably will have cameras in them out of necessity. I’m sure there will be a whole thing about getting ones that aren’t back doored by a corp, but we are also talking about curing blindness. This isn’t something everyone will skip on due to a fear of surveillance, simply because blindness can be so difficult to live with.
Are we careening towards a deus ex scenario where the majority of humanity villifies and ostracizes anyone with augments? I always expected that to a certain degree, religious folks especially being what they are, but the reaction to smart glasses has me concerned that the discrimination against people with optical implants might be way more extreme than I expected, from groups of people I would have previously considered level headed when it comes to technological advancements.
Anyway, I was just curious to hear from others what their thoughts might be on the subject. Do those of you that despise smart glasses think you’ll have the same moral issues with optical implants? What could be done to avoid the issues you have with the glasses when it comes to implants, if anything? Do you intend to discriminate against people with augments if you live long enough to see them in widespread use?
So I work a secure unit where we take people’s devices for the privacy of all patients. We had to take a patient’s prescription glasses that they like, use to not fall down while walking, because they were smart glasses with audio / video recording functionality. This is just a whole extra level of #NewFearUnlocked. I cannot imagine the administrative clusterfuck this would cause.
If people like Zuccers are selling them I’ll be ripping peoples eyes out on contact.
If they’re internet connected, sure I would. It’s a matter of trust. If I can’t be around you without Zuckerberg or someone looking at me too, then I don’t want to be around you.
Don’t worry about lemmy’s reaction to anything. They would ban remembering things you’ve seen if they could.
There aren’t going to be a whole lot of people who are going to fuck with their eyesight if they don’t have a severe eyesight handycap, which isn’t as common as Meta wants smart glasses to be.
Also, every hearing aid is a microphone, yet I’ve never heard of a case where information from hearing aids was being misused. Almost like there’s a big divide between aids for disabilities and surveillance tech.
I’ve never heard of a case where information from hearing aids was being misused.
Yet.
My grandpa’s hearing aids have a Bluetooth connection. He can receive phone calls with them.
Eh, hearing aids are tiny and have a very small battery, a standard hearing aid may have bluetooth (my mom’s hearing aids do) but keeping it active constantly transmitting the microphone would trash the battery.
It is similar to bluetooth headphones, they have larger batteries but still I have not heard about them constantly keeping the microphone active. All the ones I have seen even requires a physical action to be performed to use a voice assistant
The hearing aid comparison is a great point.
Short answer: No, this is not an issue. The FDA’s medical device regulations are not conducive to targeted advertising/data sharing/moving fast and breaking things. Data collected would be de-facto PHI, so it’s more liability than utility.
Meta want you to record things with the glasses to upload to Facebook. People who make DME firmware do not.
The FDA
Muuhahahahaaaa…
Think about people who are crazy enough (or desperate) to buy a camera that’s built right into their eyes… do you really think they give a damn?
IF FDA
THEN GOTO ELSEWHERE FOR (x)
People twist and turn to vilify the things they want to vilify and excuse the things they want to excuse. I’ve been seeing it increasingly in the context of AI where people draw distinctions between “generative AI” and “machine learning” based on whether they like the individual application or not. It might be fine to use LLMs for assistance with programming, but the same LLM becomes Satan incarnate if it’s helping write a fanfic. Photoshop can use AI to do image segmentation for “smart select” but the same AI is taking jobs from artists if it touches one pixel’s colour values.
We’re a little way off from optical implants becoming good and popular yet, so I guess we’ll just have to see which way the winds are blowing when we get there. Probably it’ll be fine, I expect most people will find ways to excuse them.
It’s a gargoyle, standing in the dimness next to a shanty. Just in case he’s not already conspicuous enough, he’s wearing a suit. Hiro starts walking toward him. Gargoyles represent the embarrassing side of the Central Intelligence Corporation. Instead of using laptops, they wear their computers on their bodies, broken up into separate modules that hang on the waist, on the back, on the headset. They serve as human surveillance devices, recording everything that happens around them. Nothing looks stupider, these getups are the modern-day equivalent of the slide-rule scabbard or the calculator pouch on the belt, marking the user as belonging to a class that is at once above and far below human society. They are a boon to Hiro because they embody the worst stereotype of the CIC stringer. They draw all of the attention. The payoff for this self-imposed ostracism is that you can be in the Metaverse all the time, and gather intelligence all the time.
Gargoyles are no fun to talk to. They never finish a sentence. They are adrift in a laser-drawn world, scanning retinas in all directions, doing background checks on everyone within a thousand yards, seeing everything in visual light, infrared, millimeter. wave radar, and ultrasound all at once. You think they’re talking to you, but they’re actually poring over the credit record of some stranger on the other side of the room, or identifying the make and model of airplanes flying overhead. For all he knows, Lagos is standing there measuring the length of Hiro’s cock through his trousers while they pretend to make conversation.
—Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson had it be ostracized.
I should really read that one.
I assume if we survive climate change and technology continues, that we will enter a society where we are recorded almost 24/7 through different means The question becomes “Will this be data owned by corporations?”, because that will dictate many things.
We will cross that bridge when we get there.
