Meta Solved Their Problem With Kenyan Contractors Seeing Footage of AI Glasses Wearers on the Toilet
Remember the appalling but utterly-unsurprising story two months ago where a team of investigative reporters in Sweden uncovered a company in Kenya contracted by Meta to review video content captured by Meta’s “smart” glasses? They spoke to some of the workers, who told tales of reviewing footage of Meta glasses users getting undressed, having sex, and taking dumps. This is a rather seedy job, and a big surprise to most of the people wearing Meta’s AI glasses, who are under the impression that “AI” does not involve human beings in Kenya seeing what their glasses capture.
Well, Meta has fixed the problem. Chris Vallance reports for BBC News:
Meta is under pressure to explain why it cancelled a major
contract with a company it was using to train AI, shortly after
