Students Hack Meta Glasses to Expose Personal Data

 Welcome, AI Enthusiasts.

What if a pair of smart glasses could instantly identify strangers on the street and pull up their personal details, everything from phone numbers to home addresses?

Two Harvard students just proved it’s possible with their creation, “I-XRAY.” Imagine walking by someone and in seconds, they know your name, where you live, and even your social security number.

The implications are massive. Could this change the way we think about privacy forever?

Ready for today’s edition? Sit back, relax and let’s dive in…

In today’s AI breakdown:

• Harvard students insert facial recognition tech onto Meta's smart glasses

• Meta recently announced ‘Movie-Gen’

• OpenAI introduces Canvas

• PLUS Trending AI tools and Guides

Ready, set, go…

SMART GLASSES

👀 Harvard students insert facial recognition tech onto Meta's smart glasses

The Breakdown: Two Harvard students have taken Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses to the next level by connecting them to a facial recognition system that can instantly identify people in public and dig up their personal info, like phone numbers, home addresses, and even social security numbers.

The details:

• They call their creation I-XRAY, which has proven capable of pulling personal data on strangers in live tests.

• The glasses don't stop at names and faces, they can find additional information online, including family members and other personal details.

• The goal of this project isn’t to sell the tech but to highlight how advanced smart glasses, facial recognition, and online databases have become.

• The students wanted to demonstrate that, with today's technology, it’s possible to extract someone's private information just by scanning their face on the street.

Why it matters: This project serves as a serious wake-up call about the privacy risks we face today. With smart glasses and facial recognition getting more powerful, your personal details may not be as private as you think, just from someone looking at you.

META

🎬️ Meta recently announced ‘Movie-Gen’

The Breakdown: Meta just revealed Movie Gen, a new tool that could be a game-changer (or maybe a threat) for Hollywood. Movie Gen can create short video clips up to 16 seconds long and sync them with audio clips up to 45 seconds long. The visuals and sound effects it generates work seamlessly together.

The details:

• Movie Gen Video: This tool uses a powerful AI model to create high-quality videos from just a text description.

• Movie Gen Audio: It can take a video and generate sounds to match it, whether it's ambient noises, background music, or sound effects—all perfectly in sync with the video.

• Precise video editing: It can also edit videos by adding or changing specific elements, or even transforming the entire background or style of the video.

• Personalized videos: If you provide a photo of someone and a text description, the tool can generate a video that keeps the character's likeness and movements realistic.

Why it matters: Meta plans to work with the entertainment industry and creators to roll this out next year. This tech could change how movies, ads, and video content are made, making it faster and cheaper to create realistic videos. However, it also raises questions about how this might impact traditional content creation.

OPEN AI

💥 OpenAI introduces Canvas

The Breakdown: OpenAI just launched Canvas, a new tool that makes it easier to edit text and code when using ChatGPT. Instead of the usual chatbox, Canvas introduces a digital notepad-style interface.

The details:

• This new setup lets users highlight specific sections of text or code so ChatGPT knows exactly what to focus on.

• Canvas allows ChatGPT to act like a copy editor or code reviewer, giving feedback and suggestions directly in the text, with a clearer understanding of the whole project.

• For now, Canvas is only available to paying subscribers (ChatGPT Plus and Teams users), but OpenAI plans to offer it to everyone after the beta stage.

• Enterprise and Edu users will get access starting next week.

Why it matters: The new interface makes ChatGPT more accessible for everyday users by allowing them to better control how it edits or reviews their work. It’s a major update that could help both developers and general users get more out of AI, simplifying the way people work with text and code.

🔥 Trending AI Tools and Guides

• Narrato AI > AI-powered content creation platform. Streamline the writing, editing, and publishing process across multiple formats, ideal for marketing teams. (link)

• Hypotenuse AI > Automates the creation of eCommerce product descriptions using AI, generating hundreds of SEO-friendly descriptions in minutes. (link)

• Runway Gen-3 > Advanced AI video generator that enables real-time editing and visual effects using text or image prompts. Perfect for creating professional-grade videos with minimal effort. (link)

• Levity > Automate your daily tasks with AI, from sorting emails to analyzing customer feedback and tagging images. (link)

• Jasper > AI assistant for marketers. Write and optimize blog posts, ads, and social media content effortlessly with machine learning and automation. (link)

Resources / Guides

• How to use Cursor AI. From one of the makers of Cursor. (link)

That’s all for today!

Thanks for reading and I’ll see you in the next edition.