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Meta Backs Off Sloppy Gambit To Nickel-And-Dime AI Glasses Customers
['Karl Bode']
Techdirt
Meta Backs Off Sloppy Gambit To Nickel-And-Dime AI Glasses Customersfrom the bad-choices-at-impossible-scale deptLast month we reported how Meta had decided to try and sloppily nickel-and-dime its AI glasses customers.
Conversation focus will remain available for free through our Early Access Program for early testers while we work on a better approach.“
The phrasing of the statement makes it clear Meta customers can expect further annoying monetization efforts down the line for glasses that already cost between $300 and $800.
Meta is simultaneously battling a branding and privacy problem as people increasingly associate Meta’s AI glasses with the non-consensual recording of women (“perv glasses” and “Ray Ban Meta creep” have become common nomenclature).
Filed Under: ai glasses, conversation focus, meta glasses, perv glasses, ray ban meta creep, rip offCompanies: meta