Lorde hits out at AI glasses during festival sponsored by Ray-Ban
Lorde hit out at AI glasses during a festival sponsored by Ray-Ban.
Lorde hit out at AI glasses during a festival sponsored by Ray-Ban.
The Royals hitmaker was performing live at Madrid's Real Cool Festival last week when she made a pointed jab at smartglasses, despite the event's sponsor Ray-Ban collaborating with Meta on such a device.
As seen in footage shared by fans online, Lorde told the crowd: "You don’t know if someone is wearing sunglasses or if they’re wearing those f***** up f******...
"Can I just say, for the record, f*** the glasses. Don’t get the glasses. Not sexy.”
She was followed on the bill by Blackpink star Jennie, who is an ambassador for Ray-Ban Meta AI and has appeared in ads for the device.
Despite backlash over smartglasses, the Financial Times reported last week that Meta is working on a "super sensing" always-aware prototype.
The feature, which could allow the device to continuously record audio and take photos "every few seconds", would spark further concerns.
According to the report, the wearer would be able to ask Meta AI about the audio and images they have taken.
However, under one proposed system, the raw footage and audio would not be sorted by Meta, nor would they be available to the user.
Instead, sources told the outlet, the metadata would be "extracted and uploaded to the server for Meta's AI to query".
Last week, Meta rolled out some advice about their smartglasses, and delved into the need for a "capture LED" to be on when content is being captured.
The company said: "Whenever content is being captured for your gallery, this white light blinks to let people know you’re capturing content.
"For a photo, it blinks briefly, while for a video, it continues to blink for as long as you are recording. The capture LED has no off switch.
"It’s there so people around you know when you are taking a photo or video you could save to your gallery and share with others."
Meta added that the camera is "disabled" whenever someone tries to cover up or disable the LED.
They continued: "Beginning with our second generation of glasses, the camera is automatically disabled if we detect that the capture LED has been blocked.
"No photos or videos can be taken until we detect that the light is unblocked.
"Since the introduction of this safeguard, we’ve seen some people go beyond using tape to sophisticated efforts to modify or destroy the capture LED.
"We are continuously improving our ability to detect tampering, and now we’re updating the glasses to disable the camera if they detect the LED was physically tampered with or destroyed."
