No surprise: Meta Workers Say They’re Seeing Disturbing Things THROUGH USERS’ SMART GLASSES
“And regardless of the wearer’s intention, much of the footage being recorded by the glasses is being sent to offshore contractors for data labeling, a widely-used preprocessing step in training new AI models in which human contractors are asked to review and annotate footage. It’s a laborious and highly resource-intensive process that tech companies often gloss over when discussing the prowess of their latest AI models. The reality can be messy. Meta contractors based in Nairobi, Kenya, told Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten in a recently published joint investigation that they’re being told to review highly sensitive and intimate data.”
Yes, I know this is no surprise when it comes to Meta (Facebook). I stopped using WhatsApp when they changed the T&C's to allow sharing of metadata to partners. So this is fully in line with how Meta operates, and they and much of Big Tech, are harvesting what they can for AI.
It's why you want physical shutters over any camera/webcams, you want to rather use open source software where you can, and you want to pay otherwise for what you use.
What is becoming clear though, is we want to be wary of terms and conditions, free services powered by adverts, Big Tech/AI driven software. It is one thing for a company (say like Apple) to harvest data and keep it to themselves to improve products, but it is a completely different thing when the likes of Meta actively share the data out to contractors, partners, and advertisers.
What we are also starting to realise is it does not stop for those parties, it also ends up with governments, whether friendly or not. Governments are also unlikely to shut down an excellent source of information for themselves.
Personally I would not touch anything that is sold, managed, or given away by Meta. They have shown themselves to be the worst of the worst, consistently over many years. They survive though because we as consumers still have accounts and use them. I know many don't log in anymore to Facebook, but those numbers still support advertisers who pay them. In theory, we could pull the rug out from under them, but in practice the network effect is still incredibly powerful.
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Meta Workers Say They're Seeing Disturbing Things Through Users' Smart Glasses
Meta contractors in Kenya told two Swedish newspapers that they're being told to review highly sensitive footage recorded by smart glasses.
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