Vision Pro needs this face recognition with information harvesting. Also add thermal imaging and body scans. The future is so bright we have to wear Vision Pro. 
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Students Add Facial Recognition to Meta Smart Glasses to Identify Strangers in Real-Time
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A con man's wet dream. I would love this tech so I could politely "know" a stranger's name who happens to know mine but gee-whiz how easily this can be abused as demonstrated with the older lady and the Indian guy. A pedophile could get all sorts of background on a kid leaving school to create a convincing story that the stranger was told by the kid's parents, grandparents or aunt that to pick up the kid. When I was a kid in the 70's a creep would just use that crappy story about letting the kid pet their dog or pony that was inside their van, but this is so much more convincing...
Sadly the best protection for our kids will be to teach them to mistrust everyone for their safety; what kind of society does that provide?
Sadly the best protection for our kids will be to teach them to mistrust everyone for their safety; what kind of society does that provide?
Good vs Evil
According to this forum, Evil is edging out Good.
But it's just information. You could identify everything. Is that good?
Like saying they know the person, and act like a con-person.
That's creepy. You just need to be informed as to what's going on with stuff like this. Just like any digital scam.
According to this forum, Evil is edging out Good.
But it's just information. You could identify everything. Is that good?
Like saying they know the person, and act like a con-person.
That's creepy. You just need to be informed as to what's going on with stuff like this. Just like any digital scam.
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Which I assume nothing will ever be done about, like always. No one is punishing companies that steal, store, and sell everyones' personal information.
sometimes ignorance is bliss
Although I would look like a dork wearing AVP in public, people might be cautious about a me as a stranger with bulky headgear "knowing" them.
The subtle, discreet appearance of the Meta ray bans makes the con that much more convincing. If the ray bans had a heads up display to provide the con man all the information they needed to work their mark, then this would be "perfect"; right now the con man needs to review data on a separate smart phone, but once they digest this and put their story together, they can approach the mark and take them to the cleaners...
Although I would look like a dork wearing AVP in public, people might be cautious about a me as a stranger with bulky headgear "knowing" them.
The subtle, discreet appearance of the Meta ray bans makes the con that much more convincing. If the ray bans had a heads up display to provide the con man all the information they needed to work their mark, then this would be "perfect"; right now the con man needs to review data on a separate smart phone, but once they digest this and put their story together, they can approach the mark and take them to the cleaners...
Next time you walk in a car dealership, the sales guy will know backstory so he can 'work' you better. Oh, joy.
Wonder what happens when someone goes in the Witness Protection program? Does they now have to get plastic surgery, too?
Richard.
Wonder what happens when someone goes in the Witness Protection program? Does they now have to get plastic surgery, too?
Richard.
Didn’t Zuck or someone shut this capability down inside Meta for their wearables as it would be too creepy. These kids found a crude back door way to do it. Definitely do not need an LLM to do it, but I guess mentioning it makes it sound more impressive.
Two students at Harvard University modified a set of Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses to add AI-based facial recognition technology, and the result is a wearable that is able to identify people in real time, according to a report from 404 Media.
The modified Meta Glasses are able to use the camera to scan a stranger's face to get their name, and there's also a function for pulling information like home address, phone number, and family members from internet sites that store that kind of data.
AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, the creators, demonstrated the glasses in public. Ardayfio walked up to a total stranger, scanned her face, got her name and affiliations, and then pretended that he knew her from one of the organizations that came up in a search about her. In a second demo, Nguyen identified a random man and initiated a conversation, pretending to have read his work based on what the glasses surfaced.
The Meta Glasses were set up to stream video directly to Instagram, and a computer program monitors the stream. AI determines when a face is detected, and then an internet search is conducted to find more pictures of the person. From there, online articles, voter registration databases, and other public information is used to suss out a name, phone number, address, and relative's names. Everything happens in a couple of minutes, and it's fed back to a smartphone app.
Dozens of Harvard students were identified and they were never aware that AI face scans had been used to suss out their names and information about them. Nguyen said that the project is meant to raise awareness of what can be done with today's consumer technology, face search engines, LLMs, and public databases. The two creators have no plans to release any kind of product or code.
Nguyen and Ardayfio chose the Meta Ray-Ban Glasses because "they look almost indistinguishable from regular glasses," making them ideal for surreptitious image capture. Reverse facial recognition was used to match faces to publicly available images, and PimEyes, a face recognition search engine, was identified as the "most effective" way to find people. An LLM was used to look up details about a person across the web, and FastPeopleSearch provided additional information. The entire setup is automatic, thanks to LLMs.
Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses are simple in design and are primarily focused on taking images, but even that limited hardware is enough to generate detailed information about a person almost instantly. With a faster processor, on-device AI capabilities, better camera technology, and augmented reality, future products could do even more.
In response to the report, Meta told 404 Media that PimEyes facial recognition can be used with any camera, and it's not something that is "only possible because of Meta Ray-Bans." That is true, but the Meta Ray-Bans look like a standard pair of glasses, and many people aren't aware when the glasses are being used to take photos. PimEyes said that it found the report "quite surprising" because its search engine is "not designed to identify individuals, either directly or indirectly."
Article Link: Students Add Facial Recognition to Meta Smart Glasses to Identify Strangers in Real-Time
Big Brother, Little Brother, Little Sister, and the creepy guy on the bus... are all watching...
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One of the reasons I don’t have any meta accounts.
Way back when I did used to ask me is this you and if it wasn’t I said yes and if it was I said no just throw off the algorithm.
Now at work we do it the old-fashioned way, customer walks in and I say how are you doing Mr. Schwartz and they perk right up and smile all done without any technology.
Way back when I did used to ask me is this you and if it wasn’t I said yes and if it was I said no just throw off the algorithm.
Now at work we do it the old-fashioned way, customer walks in and I say how are you doing Mr. Schwartz and they perk right up and smile all done without any technology.
This is not the only group of students.
I have a friend in the Seattle area who showed me the same sort of thing using his iPhone 15. We were at a local coffee shop and be basically held up his phone like he was reading something and pointed at this guy and his info came up. He would say how it was done but it was crazy.
I guess there is also a leaked file or something like that on the dark web with licenses plate data that if he pointed pointed the phone at the license plate will bring up the registered owner if it is in the file
I have a friend in the Seattle area who showed me the same sort of thing using his iPhone 15. We were at a local coffee shop and be basically held up his phone like he was reading something and pointed at this guy and his info came up. He would say how it was done but it was crazy.
I guess there is also a leaked file or something like that on the dark web with licenses plate data that if he pointed pointed the phone at the license plate will bring up the registered owner if it is in the file
Did any of you read the whole article and watch the video? Meta is not doing the doxxing. The only thing the Meta glasses are doing is providing a video feed.
The automation script is written with an LLM...to automate the reverse searching and catalog it. All of the data is being scraped from readily available databases online (PimEyes and other PeopleFinder-type sites).
Yes, the Meta glasses are an invasion of privacy, but you can do the same thing with an iPhone, or any smartphone with a good camera and decent internet connection.
The automation script is written with an LLM...to automate the reverse searching and catalog it. All of the data is being scraped from readily available databases online (PimEyes and other PeopleFinder-type sites).
Yes, the Meta glasses are an invasion of privacy, but you can do the same thing with an iPhone, or any smartphone with a good camera and decent internet connection.
What I could really use is face recognition of friends and acquaintances, so person walks up to you and , “Hi Bob” and instead of an awkward silence on my part I get a message in my AirPod “ Thats John from accounting you dumb ass, he works just one desk away from you!”
Two students at Harvard University modified a set of Meta Ray-Ban Smart Glasses to add AI-based facial recognition technology, and the result is a wearable that is able to identify people in real time, according to a report from 404 Media.
The modified Meta Glasses are able to use the camera to scan a stranger's face to get their name, and there's also a function for pulling information like home address, phone number, and family members from internet sites that store that kind of data.
AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio, the creators, demonstrated the glasses in public. Ardayfio walked up to a total stranger, scanned her face, got her name and affiliations, and then pretended that he knew her from one of the organizations that came up in a search about her. In a second demo, Nguyen identified a random man and initiated a conversation, pretending to have read his work based on what the glasses surfaced.
The Meta Glasses were set up to stream video directly to Instagram, and a computer program monitors the stream. AI determines when a face is detected, and then an internet search is conducted to find more pictures of the person. From there, online articles, voter registration databases, and other public information is used to suss out a name, phone number, address, and relative's names. Everything happens in a couple of minutes, and it's fed back to a smartphone app.
Dozens of Harvard students were identified and they were never aware that AI face scans had been used to suss out their names and information about them. Nguyen said that the project is meant to raise awareness of what can be done with today's consumer technology, face search engines, LLMs, and public databases. The two creators have no plans to release any kind of product or code.
Nguyen and Ardayfio chose the Meta Ray-Ban Glasses because "they look almost indistinguishable from regular glasses," making them ideal for surreptitious image capture. Reverse facial recognition was used to match faces to publicly available images, and PimEyes, a face recognition search engine, was identified as the "most effective" way to find people. An LLM was used to look up details about a person across the web, and FastPeopleSearch provided additional information. The entire setup is automatic, thanks to LLMs.
Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses are simple in design and are primarily focused on taking images, but even that limited hardware is enough to generate detailed information about a person almost instantly. With a faster processor, on-device AI capabilities, better camera technology, and augmented reality, future products could do even more.
In response to the report, Meta told 404 Media that PimEyes facial recognition can be used with any camera, and it's not something that is "only possible because of Meta Ray-Bans." That is true, but the Meta Ray-Bans look like a standard pair of glasses, and many people aren't aware when the glasses are being used to take photos. PimEyes said that it found the report "quite surprising" because its search engine is "not designed to identify individuals, either directly or indirectly."
Article Link: Students Add Facial Recognition to Meta Smart Glasses to Identify Strangers in Real-Time