AA1d ago

Please, stop surrendering your free will to tech corporations.

Forgive my cynicism. This is how this "smart" thing works because presumably, you're not.

The camera takes a picture of what you're eating. That possibly also includes the location. Your voice activates the camera. What else are you giving Meta? Your bedroom?

Apparently, human guinea pigs are too pathetic to exercise self-control, so Meta has to do it for them.

9to5Google: Meta’s smart glasses will watch what you eat to track nutrition data https://9to5google.com/2026/04/06/metas-smart-glasses-will-watch-what-you-eat-to-track-nutrition-data/ @9to5google #Meta #privacy

Meta’s smart glasses will watch what you eat to track nutrition data

Meta has revealed a new update for its smart glasses – Ray-Ban and Oakley – that allow you to track...

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Show threadEliza Swan1d ago
Also, journalists need to stop treating the marketing press releases as real. The vast majority of these "pre-announcements" don't ever actually lead to a real product or feature.

This is a thing that doesn't exist and probably never will.

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@spike @9to5google The glasses exist. So does the camera.
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Show threadEliza Swan1d ago
That is true.

I was unclear: I specifically meant that the software to a) reliably recognize meals, b) determine nutritional information or c) do something useful with that data does not exist and there's no reason to think that it ever will.

Sticking a camera and microphone into a pair of glasses is _easy_; getting a computer to comprehend that input in any way resembling how a human would is very much _not_ easy and there's no reason to think we even have a technology that _can_ do that.

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@spike @9to5google Maybe, but a lot of diet apps already do this type of ingredient breakdown. Maybe that's the idea?
Show threadEliza Swan1d ago
Presumably that is the idea, yeah.

I guess b) above is over-stated; you're right that there are a lot of calorie-counting apps that try this kind of thing based on the user telling it what they ate.

They largely fail at c), though, since they're often wildly inaccurate (how many calories and various nutrients are in "cheeseburger" can vary _massively_), but they do exist and sone people find them useful.

And a) is a completely unsolved problem.

So, yeah, I may be a little to pessimistic to say they'll never release this; there is a current market for this kind of thing (like there wasn't for their "metaverse") so maybe they will actually ship a product that they will say does this.

That possibility doesn't excuse treating vaporware marketing like news, though.

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@spike @9to5google Whatever Meta does usually becomes an invasion of privacy, so it's good to point it out. What people do with this knowledge is up to them, of course.