Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
Meta Files Patent for Facial Recognition, Automatic Recording of People
Meta 申请面部识别与自动录制专利
Meta filed for a patent that includes a “memory recall” system that appears to detect people via facial recognition and record them automatically, and show you a highlights reel later. Meta 提交了一项专利，其中包含一个“记忆回溯”（memory recall）系统。该系统似乎能通过面部识别检测他人并自动进行录制，随后还会为你生成一段精彩片段集锦。
Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses have garnered a reputation as “pervert” glasses, with many reports of them being used to record people surreptitiously using the onboard camera. Meta 的雷朋（Ray-Ban）智能眼镜已获得了“变态眼镜”的恶名，有许多报道称该眼镜被用于利用内置摄像头对他人的秘密录制。
The glasses feature a light that’s meant to indicate when video is being recorded, but people have been going to great lengths to disable it. Meta has released updates trying to disable the camera when the light doesn’t work or is covered. They explain how it works in a press release: 这款眼镜配有一个指示灯，旨在提示视频录制状态，但人们一直在想方设法将其禁用。Meta 已经发布了更新，试图在指示灯无法工作或被遮挡时禁用摄像头。他们在新闻稿中解释了其工作原理：
Each pair of our AI glasses has a white light called a capture LED that blinks to signify when content is being captured for your gallery — covering or disabling this capture LED automatically disables the camera. “我们每一副 AI 眼镜都有一个名为‘拍摄 LED’的白灯，它会闪烁以提示内容正在被录制并存入你的相册——遮挡或禁用此拍摄 LED 将自动禁用摄像头。”
They even brag about it being superior to smartphones, which lack the same outward-facing indicator light, but smartphones aren’t always out and constantly pointed at everyone you’re looking at: 他们甚至吹嘘这比智能手机更优越，因为智能手机缺乏同样的朝外指示灯。但智能手机并不会总是拿在手里，并持续对准你所注视的每一个人：
While mobile phones and action cameras don’t have this on their cameras, ours have had them since day one. “虽然手机和运动相机没有配备这种指示灯，但我们的产品从第一天起就有了。”
Later, it came out that a future version of the glasses might record without the indicator light at all, essentially ruining the entire point of the light in the first place. 后来有消息传出，未来版本的眼镜可能会在完全没有指示灯的情况下进行录制，这从根本上破坏了该指示灯存在的意义。
Combined with this latest news it seems even more creepy. The patent provides illustrations of how the potential feature is meant to work. It would scan and identify people performing actions, then automatically record them. 结合这一最新消息，这看起来更加令人毛骨悚然。该专利提供了关于这一潜在功能如何运作的插图。它将扫描并识别正在进行动作的人，然后自动录制他们。
Source: US Patent and Trademark Office 来源：美国专利商标局
One example Meta gives is using this feature during a dinner party. The AI says “I’ve generated some highlights of tonights’ dinner party. Would you like to see them?” Meta 给出的一个例子是在晚宴期间使用此功能。AI 会说：“我已经为你生成了今晚晚宴的一些精彩片段，你想看看吗？”
Source: US Patent and Trademark Office 来源：美国专利商标局
There’s no example of a prompt asking if you want to record, it just does it when it thinks something important is happening. 文中没有提到任何询问用户是否想要录制的提示，它只是在认为发生了重要事情时就自动进行录制。
It’s important to note that this patent doesn’t mean the feature will exist, but the fact that Meta is even considering it is concerning. 需要注意的是，这项专利并不意味着该功能一定会实现，但 Meta 竟然在考虑这一功能，这本身就令人担忧。
Meta was caught earlier this year sending video clips of “bank details, sex and naked people” to workers to train, with almost no privacy protection in place. Meta 今年早些时候被曝出将包含“银行详细信息、性行为和裸体人士”的视频片段发送给员工进行训练，且几乎没有任何隐私保护措施。