The 404 Media Podcast

The Smart Glasses That Dox Strangers

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This week we start with Joseph's piece about a couple of Harvard students who cobbled together a pair of Meta's smart glasses that automatically dox people just by looking at them. After break, Sam and Emanuel talk about two Hurricane Helene stories about data and AI. In the subscribers-only section, Joseph talks about a hacked dataset that shows the prompts used on an AI companion site. Heavy content warning for that section.


YouTube version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z3QcY6aGpQ


  • Someone Put Facial Recognition Tech onto Meta's Smart Glasses to Instantly Dox Strangers
  • Hurricane Helene Knocked One of the World’s Largest Climate Data Archives Offline
  • Hurricane Helene and the ‘Fuck It’ Era of AI-Generated Slop
  • Hacked ‘AI Girlfriend’ Data Shows Prompts Describing Child Sexual Abuse

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