Meta AI Glasses Will Enable Stalkers, Voyeurs, and Pedophiles

Meta recently announced its new Raybans smart glasses with onboard AI features if you haven't seen the reveal. The reviews have been mostly positive and are the first step towards real practical mixed reality glasses, unlike Apple's Vision Pro which no one in their right mind would wear in public. But like all new advancements in tech, big implications are coming to the surface for all of us that we need to discuss.

As first reported by 404media "A pair of students at Harvard have built what big tech companies refused to release publicly due to the overwhelming risks and danger involved: smart glasses with facial recognition technology that automatically looks up someone’s face and identifies them."

These students will not be releasing this to the public and wish to emphasize this is to prove a point.

Facial recognition including your name, address, phone number, and family

In the demo video, the students were able to easily pull up information about the scanned individual without their consent by browsing information that is publicly available on the internet. We all love to document our entire lives online and the risk wasn't as high because people weren't able to pull up a stranger's information without knowing some details about them.

No, you will no longer be able to refuse giving out your name and number to someone trying to pick you up at a bar or other social event.

Stalkers will be able to use this technology to fulfill their desires and the risk of assaults and abductions will skyrocket when it becomes so easy to identify who someone is and exactly where they live.

We all know how hard it is to remove information once it is on the internet but now more than ever we need to do our due diligence to scrub as much information as we can about ourselves and our children.

But this isn't even the worst of what is to come...

Real time nudification of people and even worse minors

Some sites already exist that use AI to "nudify" any photo you upload to them. We have seen the celebrity deepfake nudes spread like wildfire across X and other platforms. Pair this with the new smart glasses and people will be able to walk around with the near real-time ability to see you "nude". Yes, this will be a fake nude version of you but the idea of it still completely grosses me out. I don't even want to imagine it but this same tactic could be used on minors as once again there are sites that exist to create fake AI child pornography and it's disgusting.

There won't be an easy fix to this problem, many AI models are open source and are being twisted to perform tasks that should never be allowed. This will be a hard battle to fight between law enforcement and the individuals who choose to create and distribute technologies like this. The lines are blurry when it comes to "fake" nude content and we are far from passing laws to combat this.

To be clear, this is not a native feature that is shipping with these glasses, but like any piece of technology, it can be hacked and jailbroken to do things the creator never intended.

The original tweet with the video demo from the Harvard students can be found here