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Apple’s AirPods with cameras for AI are apparently close to production (www.theverge.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by General_Effort@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] vagrancyand@sh.itjust.works 0 points 4 weeks ago

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.

[–] goatsarah@thegoatery.dyndns.org 0 points 4 weeks ago (1 children)

@General_Effort no

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world -2 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

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.

[–] Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It literally says "cameras for AI". You don't see how that becomes a problem?

[–] ParadoxSeahorse@lemmy.world 1 points 3 weeks ago

I’d say the spectrum goes from local ML, that seems fine, to recordings being made, leaving the device and being potentially seen by other humans (even “anonymised”), that’s much more problematic.

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