The new headphones might help you decide what to make for dinner.
  • bonenode@piefed.socialEnglish
    99·
    4 months ago

    The AirPods’ cameras “aren’t designed” to snap photos or video but instead can take in “visual information in low resolution” that users can query Siri about, like asking the AI assistant what they should cook with the ingredients they have in front of them, according to Gurman. They may also use the cameras to help with things like turn-by-turn directions.

    So you got to hover that leek next to your ears? Nice they are low resolution but if they can recognise something sitting on a kitchen counter in front of you then that is not a relevant argument. They can 100% be used to identify people standing in front of you as well and that is going to be outside anyones control.

      • KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        7·
        4 months ago

        States as in US? Because if that’s the case, this won’t be illegal in any way shape or form.

        I don’t understand why people think there is some law out there that supersedes the first amendment which unambiguously protects video recording in anything other than a bathroom, changing room, or the like.

        Even in private property doesn’t have a law stating you can’t record, it’s just that you are likely to be trespassed if you break a private establishments no recording policy.

        • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

          And the footage itself doesn’t even become illegal even when the trespass was in fact illegal, I heard - can’t require deletion I think? (Of course the property owner or their associates might be bigger than you!)

    • 404found@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      They probably are designed for low resolution because Apple couldn’t mass produce better cameras affordably. Plus there is other hardware they don’t have space for.

      This will most likely follow the iPhone camera business model where new model AirPods will keep getting upgraded cameras.

    • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      1·
      4 months ago

      that is going to be outside anyones control.

      Apple could theoretically lock it down [for a period of time] but darn—you made me realize the clones will have real cameras and look 1:1 before long

      …lol “Siri, verify nearby AirPods” (…then the bad guy keeps a real pair activated nearby? and it’s back to creepy)

      -

      This may be a first of its kind hardware issue for Apple, unless I’m forgetting something

    • Rioting Pacifist@lemmy.worldEnglish
      191·
      4 months ago

      This AI push is stagnating innovation.

      I think it’s the other way around, corporate consolidation (including capturing our governments and getting all research funding) killed innovation a while ago and now AI is just the latest non-idea that is being used to cover up that none of the corporations have any new ideas. Even Apple’s latest good idea, ARM laptops, was basically done by cheap Linux nettops a decade ago.

      • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        13·
        4 months ago

        Also, ARM laptops were Steve Jobs’ last big idea. He put in place Apple’s last 10 year plan before he died. The first M series laptop came out nine years after his death.

        The reason being that Apple is actually considered to be one of the founding members of ARM so they have unique access to the core. Moving to ARM was always the plan after moving to Intel. Apple was the first company to produce a portable ARM device, the Newton back in the early 90s before Jobs’ return.

        So even that innovation isn’t exactly new.

  • Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zipEnglish
    25·
    4 months ago

    Fuck right off, dipshits.

    What really sucks about this is that there’s a version of us in the infinite multiverses where these companies and politicians develop and maintain trust so that we can actually benefit from some of these innovations without just feeling paranoid and taken advantage of, but instead, in their hubris, they make us hate them and their tech.

    • blargh513@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      15·
      4 months ago

      This is the truth. I got a free Oura ring and I would love to try it, but they’re in bed with palantir. Fuck that.

      So many interesting developments, but I’m unwilling to sell my soul to the devil to try them. What a dream it would be to use them without worrying that they’re going to sell every possible bit of data about me to the lowest bidder.

  • rmuk@feddit.ukEnglish
    22·
    4 months ago

    Oh, brilliant! This is exactly what I wanted and directly solves so many problems and frustrations I have with the status quo! Thank goodness for such innovation! I feel seen!

    Edit: oops, that should say “I hope everyone involved in bringing this product to market gets given an STI by a hippopotamus”. Silly autocorrect.

  • 404found@lemmy.zipEnglish
    15·
    4 months ago

    I can literally throw a rock outside and hit someone in the head wearing some type of headphones. There are tons of options out there.

    AirPods aren’t impressive and Apple isn’t focused on exciting their customers like they were a decade ago. My old Apple Watch died recently and I replaced it with another brand. Be loyal to Apple the same way they are loyal to you.

  • InfiniteGlitch@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    11·
    4 months ago

    I like AirPods (Pro) but this is a real no-go (for me). If this really gets pushed and in the stores, will not purchase them.

    I wish companies would just get away with AI and unnecessary crap like this.

    • Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      2·
      4 months ago

      I LOVE my pros but also for sure would not buy headphones with shitty AI garbage in them. I’ve never enabled Siri on anything and never will