Two students at Harvard University altered Meta Ray-Ban Glasses to integrate AI to support facial recognition technology. This modification permits the identification of people in real time. The face glasses can capture names, obtain names, and learn more about an individual. They can pull phone numbers, addresses, and family details. That is why the recent development of this application triggers some privacy concerns for the users.
The two creators, AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio showed the audience what the glasses look like. They recognized unknown people, starting a conversation based on such data as were discovered. The glasses let stream the video on Instagram, and AI controls the face detection. After a match, it retrieves data from public databases articles, etc. It takes just a few minutes to go through the whole process.
In the study, Nguyen and Ardayfio only highlighted the aspect of increasing awareness. It is quite ironic since their project demonstrated the possible dangers of consumer technology, public databases, and face search engines. For identification, they relied on PimEyes an AI facial recognition.
Meta said that this technology could be used with any camera. PimEyes also pointed out that its tool doesn’t work to recognize people, but it analyzes the images. However, this is evident from the experiment, showing there are privacy concerns. Newer models could present even bigger risks, future products, with all their superior technology and planned obsolescence.
