Ok, name some other plausible use of these glasses? In my opinion, even Silk Road had a better alibi.

Steve, the crowd is magic. You don't get it.
Just kidding, you're just renting 1 server except you don't know where it is and have no control over it.

"It's the cloud! It's everywhere! It's distributed!" - dumb people who use AWS
"Yeah, it's on like one server. Pay us more money lol" - Amazon.

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....?

You also can't just pretend that malicious leaking of data to Meta isn't inherent to using such glasses.

No, your argument is superficial with a significant flaw that intent is baked into public use of both Flock and Meta's glasses. While there might be legitimate uses for smart glasses, such as manufacturing or remote surgery (I am going on limb here, Meta glasses are not used in such way as far as I know), the vast, overwhelming usage is to produce non-consenting public recordings of people and leak them to Meta for further data mining.

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.

Correct term is Privacy Rapist, pervert glasses is just polite euphemism.

I am not part of that dark corner of the Internet, so I don't really know why anyone would pay (or use for free) any of this shit. However, in gaming, there is a concept of "whale". A tiny minority of player would pay serious money for any advantage. This is typically seen as P2W (pay to win) but it can fund a small dev team. Back in the day I played a niche MMO, I recall a player that allegedly dropped $100K on the game. To me, this is crazy.

Only if you pay for the VPN.

"Waaah, lobbyists run the world!" - dumb people.
"We paid 100 million and got nothing because it's a bad law that not enough people want" - Crypto bros.
I guess you can't just buy policy after all

Famous last words. "Proven because it is old" is a much weaker argument than "Proven because the compiler validates every individual unit." Period. Not to mention, we keep seeing this argument fall apart, especially when the "old code" egos prevail even when they obviously shouldn't have.

https://openprinting.github.io...

Common sense should tell you that old code is not proven simply because nobody has exploited it. But here you are, making that argument. You have implementations confused with specifications. Specifications tend to age better than implementations do.

A lot of folks eat non-dairy ice cream because of health reasons or ethical reasons. There's enough of a market for it that they make the stuff.

A lot of folks watch these things already for a variety of reasons, but whatever those are there appears that the market for synthetic live action-esque movies has a positive cost benefit ratio for the folks making these things. Hell, most blockbuster movies are 50% CGI already. The jump to 100% isn't all that much.