No I wouldn't consider these as viable everyday wear, but given how badly nearsighted I am, they still give me much better focus than my natural vision.
I got 2 pairs of these delivered today for only $7.16 total ๐
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OOTL: How does this help prevent or fight against AI?
You're not out of the loop, there's nothing that suggests these do anything.
My best guess is because they are opaque lenses with tiny holes, so no photo filter or IR light will be able to "map" your eye region or anything behind the glasses. If that is indeed the answer, then these are not sufficient enough to actually do anything of value if not coupled with other face coverings. They will only serve to fuck up your vision and depth-perception (unless you have myopia, apparently)
You wanna poke any guesses at exactly how I learned my natural vision is about 20/500 stupid nearsighted? Eye doctors use these as a basic test for children, to quickly gauge whether further testing needs to be done and a prescription issued.
I was 7 when I first got to see anything even close to clearly, through pinhole glasses not much different than these. And they were cheap, so why not get a couple pairs right?
I'm not questioning the use of them medically, I'm questioning the idea that these do anything for AI.
They still cause depth-perception problems, regardless. Even you commented yourself you wouldn't wear them while driving.
They don't cause any depth perception problems you silly goose, I'm wearing them right now as I type these messages on my tablet.
But they do cause just enough distortion to make the characters on the screen look slightly duplicated in random places until I shift my head a little bit, I apparently have to spend a little longer making sure I type and spell everything correctly.
Honestly, if I absolutely had to, given the only options of no glasses or pinhole glasses, I'd choose pinhole glasses for driving if it were an absolute emergency, but again I seriously don't recommend that.
you have posted this in a community called Fuck AI. this is why everyone is trying to work out what your post has to do with anti-AI sentiment.
My bad, I also posted under Glasses and Eyewear, I'm getting comments from both communities right now.
The glasses block significant facial features used for facial recognition.
I am assuming this idea probably has something to do with the Flock camera AI surveillance police state situation, but I don't know.
Flock is far from the only widespread surveillance system. Just the biggest.
More or less yeah.
Honestly I basically bought them just because they're stupid cheap and as an absolute last ditch backup they do improve my vision to an extent, should I lose or break my main prescription glasses.
They fairly effectively defeat facial recognition.
That doesn't answer the question though. Where are the details and how does it do it "fairly effectively?"
All I can find about them is info on myopia, and even for that they don't fully work.
Of course they're not perfect, but when you compare 2 pairs of these for $7.16 to my actual prescription which last cost me $217, well why the hell wouldn't I buy a couple pairs of these as cheap backups. I'm probably gonna give my mom the other pair for Christmas.
As far as AI face recognition, a large part of that is tracking the exact dimensions and ratios of your eyes, eyebrows, nose bridge area, etc. If cameras can't see those features, they're hard pressed to even register the image as a face, let alone try to identify the person.
Regarding your points...
I actually have 3 pairs of glasses, one prescription and 2 others that happen to work perfectly for me that were thankfully donated to me, one of those pairs is even better than any prescription I've ever had, so I think I'm good on prescription glasses for a while thankfully.
Hence the hat, and guess what, I'm not even wearing the same hat that I wore for the photo...