Neil Cybart 10/9/24 Neil Cybart 10/9/24

Meta Admits Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Are Used to Train AI, Meta’s Achilles' Heel, Smart Glasses Used for Doxing

Today's Above Avalon Daily email contains the following stories:

Meta Admits Ray-Ban Meta Smart Glasses Are Used to Train AI
Meta’s Achilles' Heel
Smart Glasses Used for Doxing

Following Monday's discussion regarding Vision Pro apps, we will stay in smart glasses / headsets / spatial computing land for today's update. A news story out of Harvard involving Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, face search engines, and large language models caught my attention over the weekend. Before we get to that, some disappointing news on the Meta smart glasses front as it pertains to data collection.

Let’s jump right in.

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