Meta wants its AI glasses to seem less creepy. Its AI strategy says otherwise.

Meta is introducing a software update for its Ray-Ban smart glasses designed to alert people when the device is recording, addressing privacy concerns regarding clandestine filming. However, this safety feature arrives while the company simultaneously broadens its data collection practices to support its wider artificial intelligence development. The tension highlights the ongoing conflict between Meta's efforts to normalize wearable AI hardware and the company's dependency on harvesting large amounts of user information for its machine learning models.