MSM, Mainstream Media, are not reporters, are not journalists. They are FAKE NEWS activists: garbage and lies churned out by these dumb, fat, middle-aged, childless women, who hate men obsessively. They're cowbag, feminazi activists. They suffer from TDS. And, they use Chat GPT to post anti-American propaganda. Typical Kamala supporters, these fat man-hating dumb bitches post propaganda that's then posted by this site, for the woke Indiot moron commentars here, who vote themselves to +5, with their clueless, communist takes on everything. They are National SOCIALISTS, the 4th Reich. And, before some idiot comes along with that moronic Korea analogy: it's bullshit. Fascism is LEFT wing. Right wing is hands-off, small govt. And, the economics of Fascism is LEFT WING Socialist economics (a disaster for the poor) in every measurable way. As for weapons in Space, well, Duh! This has been the case for ten years, now.

Who benefits more from people using these glasses ?

I would argue that Facebook / Meta gets free access to all that facial imagery of everyone the user passes, for free.
Hell, you even paid Meta for very tools that will be used against you eventually. ( smartphones are the other big one )

In a Country that is doing its damndest to become a Surveillance / Police State, that data is an absolute gold mine.

See, you're doing it wrong.

You walk up with the obvious camera on your shoulder and when they pitch a fit about it, you agree to
turn it off and set it down. All the while the concealed camera they didn't notice is recording just fine.

Or the surveillance camera on the home your standing next to.
Or the dash cam in the vehicle you're standing in front / rear of.
etc. etc.

I suppose the point is you should behave and act as if someone IS recording the interaction at all times.
Even if / when it isn't obvious to you.

They are literally sold on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-...

( many items at that link indicate several hundred or even thousands have been purchased in the past month alone )

and the majority of the population could give two shits about it.

Why some folks are making a big deal out of the Sunglasses version when all the gear easily available to anyone with a
credit card and an Amazon account outsells the Meta Sunglasses by several orders of magnitude is a mystery.

Will the old trick of outlining your license plate with a bunch of high power IR LEDs obscure your plate from the camera, while still allowing human eyes to read them....?

Yeah, if only I had some mod points today for you :P

Some people believe that banning a tool or thing will solve the problem of the tiny fraction of a percent of folks who use said
tool to do bad things. ( Guns, Computers, Nuclear Technology are the easiest examples I can think of )

Are there people running around with modded glass-cams ? Some may even be doing things they shouldn't be with them.
Maybe, probably. Who cares ?

Folks need to realize that these can operate and provide the same service as the dash cam in a vehicle does.
( Or surveillance footage from a security camera, or the voice recording you made of that last phone call, etc )

Many on /. aren't very fond of law enforcement. Do you think it might be a useful tool to record the interaction between
you and the officer(s) during a traffic stop or if they detain you for any reason ? Especially if they are unaware of
the recording taking place ? ( People act much differently when they know the cameras are rolling )

See where a tool can be both extremely useful and / or malicious depending upon whose hands its in ?

Humans lie almost as often as they tell the truth.

If you ever find yourself in a situation where it is your word against theirs, the one who has recorded evidence
on their side is going to be in a far better position than someone without it.

You can't really justify banning a tool simply because a fraction of a percent decide to use it for malicious purposes.
( I suppose the exception is if the aforementioned tool was designed specifically and only for malicious purposes )

Tools do nothing on their own. You have to factor in the Human Variable into the equation before anything malicious comes from them.

Imagine a society where computers, cars, guns, certain household chemicals, generative AI, etc. are all banned because
the .001 percent of society goes out and does stupid sh*t with them.

We may as well go back to living in caves and hunting for dinner with a spear :|

There are two reasons to go with Nitro on Discord that may or may not be worth the money to you:

1) Your video / image uploads in the free tier have a 20MB limit, whereas Nitro can upload 500MB ( regardless of server you're in )
2) Streaming at 4k / 60fps ( assuming your internet connection can handle it ) is available with the Nitro Tier.

The rest is pretty much fluff. Stickers, emojis, avatar frames, etc.

I'm not all that concerned about $120 / year.
Hell, I spend anywhere from ~$30 - $50 per DAY just eating lunch. ( fajitas are tasty but a touch pricey )

But, everyone has different budgets, so I get it I guess.

Translation: The idiot employee in Sector G-7 will never push the big, red button that disables the cooling pumps to the nuclear reactor.

D'oh....

Whether you're 20, 30, 40, or 50, you're gonna be fucked by AI in some way in the next decade. It doesn't matter if you're old or not.

How?

Can you give some realistic, meaningful ways the average person like myself will be fucked by AI?

Engineers need to remember that time exists.

You have three months to teach a teen how to control a robot with a microcontroller.

OK, how much of that do you budget to CS and assembly?

Month 1: Architecture and data structures? You have 18 40 minute periods and maybe homework assignments.

Half of the class won't even gain mastery in that time. By time your class is over they will still be having memory management problems.

So then you've failed to achieve the goal.

There are engineers who remember that time exists and for the rest we have engineering managers. Not ideal, just how it is.

To be sure engineering schools are doing a bad job at teaching reality. Even in a dx/dr environment, it's so weird.

In my experience anyway.
( ~30 years in a Union Company )

Unions will fight tooth and nail for:

1) Additional head counts for Union work
2) Payraises for Union Employees

Thus, as headcounts increase, Union Dues also increase. More Union members = more Union Dues taken in.

As your pay goes up, so too do the amounts of Union Dues paid to the Union since Union Dues are typically a
percentage of base pay.

Funny how they can give two shits your Healthcare Premiums increased more than your Union negotiated payraise did.
( Every year our healthcare costs outstripped our raises lol. Every. Damn. Year. )

Thus, while they claim to fight for YOU, they're really only fighting to ensure their own pay raise. You're simply the shield
they hold up while pretending to be righteous.

Unions once had a place in society but I feel like they've become almost as evil as the corporations they're pretending to
protect you against.

Anthropic is publicly keen on slowing down the overall development right up until another company
who isn't knee-capped by US regulations waves at them as they pass them by.

Anyone who believes Countries outside of the United States are going to slow down the research
in this field is just an idiot.

Hell, we can't even get China to sign on to any sort of modern version of the Start Treaty to limit
the number or warheads, type and delivery systems of modern nuclear arsenals. You think they're
going to slow down their research on AI simply because the United States is demanding it ?

Delusional.

They're well aware of the stakes of coming in Second Place and they'll be damned ( and rightfully so )
if they're going to let the US dictate the terms.

For those who didn't live through the Cold War, this is what an Arms Race looks like kids.
It isn't going to slow down anytime soon.

Traditional media is finding it tough to rekindle that spark to capture interest in their efforts these days.
( How many no longer bother to go to the movie theater these days ? )

I mean, do I really want to go see the Nth remake of Batman ? . . . . . no not really )

It has become so expensive to produce / finance a movie, video game or streaming media series that they're
refusing to push the envelope and try anything new and, instead, resorting the the same old storylines, tropes,
and algorithms that made them money in the past.

Thus, the reason we're up to Star Wars 13, Scream 7, Super Hero movie eleventy nine, yet another Zombie
movie and who knows how many Marios, Zeldas, Call of Duty, Assasins Creed and Final Fantasy games that keep
getting churned out.

I recently watched an animated ( anime style ) short made by AI and I was hard pressed to tell the difference
in animation / image quality from traditional methods. Not only was it made very quickly, it was made at a
fraction of the cost with the same level of quality.

I recently listened to a few AI generated songs and the end result was the same. I picked up on a few minor
mispronunciations of the lyrics, but it is easily fixed and can easily compete with any song on the radio today.
Two of the AI covers sounded better than the originals did :|

Here's the important part: They were all good enough I would pay for them. . . . . .

( Hell, most music is so digitially processed, compressed and sampled anymore can you even call it original ? )

What I've seen in recent days is AI generated animation and music being done at a quality level easily on par with
current standards of human counterparts, but at a fraction of the speed and cost.

This alone should terrify traditional media companies because they just can't afford to keep doing it the old way.
That is already apparent in the runaway budgets of damn near all recent AAA games and movies.

If they plan on staying in this business for much longer, they're going to have to embrace the change ( much like
the music industry did with digitial downloads vs physical media ) or risk going extinct within a decade.

- Assuming it takes that long considering the very impressive strides AI is making in terms of overall quality. -

It is something the shareholders of the Big Media Companies will be watching very closely.
( and they ALWAYS follow the money )

When I say "sweater" I mean a pullover....down here mostly just simple cotton sweaters, not terribly heavy....