Harvard dropouts to launch 'always on' AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation | TechCrunch
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After developing a facial-recognition app for Meta’s Ray-Ban glasses and doxing random people, two former Harvard students are now launching a startup that makes smart glasses with an always-on microphone.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/33445279

Two former Harvard students are launching a pair of “always-on” AI-powered smart glasses that listen to, record, and transcribe every conversation and then display relevant information to the wearer in real time.

“Our goal is to make glasses that make you super intelligent the moment you put them on,” said AnhPhu Nguyen, co-founder of Halo, a startup that’s developing the technology.

Or, as his co-founder Caine Ardayfio put it, the glasses “give you infinite memory.”

“The AI listens to every conversation you have and uses that knowledge to tell you what to say … kinda like IRL Cluely,” Ardayfio told TechCrunch, referring to the startup that claims to help users “cheat” on everything from job interviews to school exams.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      When I did customer service we had to do this as part of then training course, no idea why since we didn’t choose whether or not to record calls, they were all recorded.

      I think the way it works is the customer is told, before the call starts, that the call is recorded, if they continue with the call that’s consent, however now consent already exists for the call to be recorded, they can record your call and they don’t have to tell you, because your consent to the call being recorded is kind of assumed.

      But you have to actually get that consent, you can’t just assume that people will be okay with being recorded, you have to tell them that a call will be recorded. Critically this has to be before the call starts you can’t tell them after the fact.

      So in this case you would have to wear a t-shirt that says “I’m recording everything”, and if people don’t like it they won’t talk to you.