There's a big social stigma against this. Every other version of this that has come out has failed due to the combination of expense and stigma. I suspect this is nothing to worry about.

Very few people are going to pay hundreds of dollars to be socially isolated. Kill the market, kill the device.

“The AI listens to every conversation you have and uses that knowledge to tell you what to say … kinda like IRL Cluely,” Ardayfio told TechCrunch, referring to the startup that claims to help users “cheat” on everything from job interviews to school exams.

“If somebody says a complex word or asks you a question, like, ‘What’s 37 to the third power?’ or something like that, then it’ll pop up on the glasses,” Ardayfio added.

The product sounds like just another shitty AI assistant but on your face. The problem might fix itself when only 5 idiots buy them.

Depends on whether you live in the US or EU I guess.

Wait 'til they come out (if ever), figure out the tech, make/buy a detector, pull your club out ur backpack ...

Look into microphone jammers

Maybe those hoodies that fuck with camera sensors so they can't take photos of your face?

Let's fight ai with ai! As in, opencv-driven turrets :)

Tell that to silicon valley, its a marketing bit now. Being "Too cool for school" is part of the tech startup playbook.

That's not true, but this kind of devices has been subject to extensive thought experiments in science fiction and philosophy and found lacking actual use.

It's like a watch implant. You need to know time, looking at tower clocks and wall clocks isn't too convenient. Wrist watches and in general portable watches were a thing of beauty, but also quite useful for military commanders, sailors and pilots. But this progression doesn't lead you to implanting a watch into your hand, so that you'd always have it.

Similarly, this progression doesn't lead humanity to needing such devices, or honestly much of modern computing. It's just a personal computer. Even smartphones are honestly a less than convenient form factor, approaching minimal usable size.

All this is just a way to spend resources in some other way than actually building a unified humanity with access to good medicine, education, connectivity, food, political and labor rights. That's not even because those powerful people are evil, - I think it's more because doing anything real with such implications can get you killed. Even a supposed rich psychopath isn't usually evil, doing a good thing weighs about as much as doing a bad thing with the same amount of resources for them. We live in a time when those resources are actually present in the world, - 100 years ago this wasn't yet true. Which makes improving anything for real a dangerous endeavor, because every such improvement destroys someone else's base.

A bit like a capitalist version of late USSR's deadlocks.

“a lot of these college people” 🙄