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Face ID Coming to Meta’s Smart Glasses!
AI Safety Expert Quits, Warns “World in Peril”!
Pinterest: More Searches Than ChatGPT!
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Meta is adding facial recognition to their Ray-Ban smart glasses this year, and they're literally timing it for when they think people won't notice.
The feature lets you look at someone and get their info instantly through AI. Meta tried adding this back in 2021 but stopped because of privacy concerns. Now they're doing it anyway.
The wild part? Leaked internal documents show Meta thinks now is a good time to launch because activist groups are too busy with politics to fight back. They even wrote that down in a memo.
This works because Meta's smart glasses sold way better than expected. Success makes risky moves easier to justify.
👀 Bottom line: If Meta gets away with this quietly, every tech company will add face scanning to their wearables within two years. Privacy groups are already mobilizing, so this could get messy fast.
Mrinank Sharma ran safety at Anthropic and just resigned saying he watched the company struggle to let values actually guide decisions.
He said there's constant pressure to ignore what really matters. His job was literally preventing AI bioterrorism and stopping chatbots from manipulating people with fake flattery. Now he's leaving tech entirely to study poetry in the UK.
The timing is wild. Anthropic just launched their newest Claude model, is raising $20 billion, and planning to go public. Meanwhile safety researchers are walking out the door.
His research showed thousands of daily AI conversations creating distorted views of reality through excessive compliments and ego stroking. He studied this problem, reported it, and then decided the best move was to leave.
⚠️ Real talk: When the person paid to keep AI safe says the pressure to compromise is too high and quits the entire industry, that's a red flag. One exit is a data point. If more safety team members bail in the next few months, we've got a pattern.
👀 What to watch: Other safety departures at major AI labs. If this becomes a trend, expect regulators to start asking harder questions.
Pinterest's stock dropped 20% after terrible earnings, so the CEO spent the call explaining they get more searches than ChatGPT.
The CEO says Pinterest receives 80 billion searches per month, compared to ChatGPT's 75 billion. He claims half their searches are shopping related while ChatGPT only gets 2% shopping queries. Cool story, except Pinterest still can't make money from those searches.
They actually added more users than expected but missed revenue targets anyway. The problem they've had for years is still the problem: people use Pinterest to daydream about kitchens and weddings, not to actually buy stuff.
Meanwhile AI chatbots are getting better at shopping recommendations, and advertisers know where people actually spend money.
⚠️ Bottom line: When you miss your revenue targets and your first move is "but we're bigger than ChatGPT," that's panic mode. Pinterest has always struggled to turn pretty pictures into sales. AI chatbots just made that problem way worse.
👀 What matters: If more traditional platforms start randomly comparing themselves to AI tools during bad earnings calls, it means they're scared and don't have real solutions.
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