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Right... so this thing hooked up to a centralized AI, deciding what people see when, how often they see it, what they can express and how they feel... Do people really want to live in the matrix? I have a visceral reaction to this idea



https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2023/06/introducing-apple-vis... says

"Where a user looks stays private while navigating Apple Vision Pro, and eye tracking information is not shared with Apple, third-party apps, or websites. Additionally, data from the camera and other sensors is processed at the system level, so individual apps do not need to see a user’s surroundings to enable spatial experiences."


I mean, thats patent bullshit.

sorry, but the eye gase vector will will easy to infer by where its rendering stuff, and where the gesture system is triggered.

Sure apps wont get a look in to the shape of the room persay, but again you can infer it when looking for occlusions.


Unless the code is fully free software that has been audited by enough people & there is a proof the binaries on the device correspond to this source code, then this means nothing.


I'm not suggesting it currently has this functionality


Then I guess the answer to your off-topic "do people want a strawman horrible future I just imagined?" is "no".


It's not a strawman when people openly declare their intent to create such a thing


Who said it’s hooked up to a centralized AI?

Apple’s buzzword of the day yesterday was “on-device processing” and “on-device X” in general. They have invested heavily for years now into shipping ML chips in their devices and don’t seem to be stopping; if anything they’re increasing the use of it.

Is there anything definitively claiming this would be any different?


> Who said it’s hooked up to a centralized AI?

I'm talking about the infrastructure not this device necessarily


This could be exciting if the user was in control (FLOSS). The user is not, so it's nightmarish instead.




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