I wouldn’t even say hi alone my name to someone wearing a Meta headset out in public. And if facial recognition becomes that common for wearers, most of the population is going to adorn something to prevent that. And if it’s at work, I’m not working there and I have to think many would agree. Coworkers don’t and wouldn’t tolerate coworkers taking videos or pictures of them.

This is not how the overwhelming majority of the world works though.

> if facial recognition becomes that common for wearers, most of the population is going to adorn something to prevent that

"Most of the population" is going to be "the wearers".

> Coworkers don’t and wouldn’t tolerate coworkers taking videos or pictures of them.

Here is a fun experience you can try: just hit "record" on every single Teams or Meet meeting you're ever on (or just set recording as the default setting in the app).

See how many coworkers comment on it, let alone protest.

I can tell you from experience (of having been in thousands of hours of recorded meetings in the last 3 years) that the answer is zero.

You are probably right, but that is truly a cyberpunk dystopian situation. A few megacorps will catalog every human interaction and there will be no way to opt out.

I'd gladly wear a headset like that! I think you dramatically overestimate the number of people that would actually care about any theoretical privacy infringement here.

> And if facial recognition becomes that common for wearers, most of the population is going to adorn something to prevent that.

In my opinion, you do not have an accurate view of how much the average person cares about this. London is the most surveilled city on the planet with widespread CCTV/facial recognition, as is Washington D.C. and China. But literally no one bothers with anti-surveillance measures.

> I’m not working there and I have to think many would agree. Coworkers don’t and wouldn’t tolerate coworkers taking videos or pictures of them.

This is a very antiquated view IMO. You are already being filmed and monitored at work. I see no issue with a local LLM interpreting my environment, or even a privacy-aware secure LLM deployment like Apple's Private Cloud Compute: https://security.apple.com/blog/private-cloud-compute/

> I think you dramatically overestimate the number of people that would actually care about any theoretical privacy infringement

Not really surprised that you don't see it as a problem

> This is a very antiquated view IMO. You are already being filmed and monitored at work.

Not really surprised that you don't see it as a problem

> a privacy-aware secure LLM

Funniest thing I've heard all month.

Do read through the linked article. Not sure how you could make cloud compute more private if you tried; apart from homomorphic encryption.

Of course, no Hacker News thread is complete without the "I would never shake hands with an Android user" guy who just has to virtue signal.

> And if facial recognition becomes that common for wearers, most of the population is going to adorn something to prevent that

My brother in Christ, you sincerely underestimate how much "most of the population" gives a shit. Most people are being tracked by Google Maps or FindMy, are triangulated with cell towers that know their exact coordinates, and willingly use social media that profiles them individually. The population doesn't even try in the slightest to resist any of it.