Meta’s AI-powered smart glasses allegedly collect users' daily lives, including highly intimate material, often without their realization. According to reports, Meta employs data annotators through its subcontractor Sama in Nairobi to help train artificial intelligence systems. They label images, transcribe audio and assess how AI tools respond to users.
These data annotators have described reviewing sensitive videos recorded through the glasses. The glasses allow users to activate an AI assistant with voice commands, process images and record short videos.
"In some videos, you can see someone going to the toilet or getting undressed. I don’t think they know, because if they knew they wouldn’t be recording," one worker said.
Swedish newspapers Göteborgs-Posten and Svenska Dagbladet reported the news.
The glasses allow users to activate an AI assistant with voice commands, process images and record short videos.
"We see everything – from living rooms to naked bodies. Meta has that type of content in its databases. People can record themselves in the wrong way and not even know what they are recording. They are real people like you and me," another worker said.
Further elaborating on privacy concerns, a worker said some videos filmed through the device include people engaging in physical contact. The workers also said that their own personal devices are banned inside the office to prevent leaks.
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