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Sony wants photographs of my ears for "360 reality audio". No. Just no.
Dude! I bought some Bose headphones that were amazing. But I read over the privacy policy and they wanted to “map my head movements” and they wanted permission to passively listen to audio sent through the speakers and any audio around the microphone.
I ran those fuckers back to the store as quickly as possible.
But not before having to duck and dodge agreeing to the privacy policy in their app, so I quickly deleted it. But when I started interacting with their customer service, they tried to get me to sign a different privacy policy that seemed formulated just for the information shared in the chat, but in two separate addenda I had to dig through, I saw they were tryin to get me to sign the original super invasive privacy policy.
Fuck Bose. Fuck all these fake fronts for surveillance capitalism. Fuck capitalism.
Wrong chat dude. What does that have to do with AI anyways?
I think the claim is that they can use AI to improve the sound of their headphones if you supply them with images of your ears. I just dont like them having a database of personally identifying information like that.
How personally identifiable is your ear though? It's not connected to your thoughts, you can't use it to determine your age height and weight, which ad company would need that data? IMO, it's no different than sending a mold of your ear tube to a CIEM company to get your custom molded earphones.
Ears turn out to be a good way to recognize individuals. Ear biometrics is an evolving area.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7594944/
I see. I still don't think it's cause for concern yet, but good to know. Thanks!
Northrup Grumman probably already have a prototype to identify you by your ears from a mile up and kill you with a single bullet the moment you're not inside.
it's bizarre without context, but i recognise what they mean - Sony's headphones app suggests you send them photos of your ears so they can analyse the shape to improve the noise cancellation.
Which I don't think has anything to do with GenAI. Though, I admit I'm not well educated in ear scanning and 3D audio reconstruction, so good sources are appreciated.