Zuckerberg Weighs In on AI & Copyright Amid Orion Glasses Debut

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Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg is betting big on AR glasses as the next tech accessory to take over our lives after smartphones. He recently debuted the Orion augmented reality glasses, which the company says is too complicated and expensive to take to market at the moment. But that will change.Orion AR glasses are a custom-built computer for your face, which has become the new focus for many tech companies. (What happened to the metaverse?) It was designed by Meta and features micro LED projectors inside the frame that beams graphics in front of your eyes via waveguides in the lenses. Zuck says he believes people will want AR glasses for two purposes—communicating with each other through digital information overlaid in the real world, and interacting with AI.

Zuckerberg also sat down for an interview with The Verge, discussing the potential applications for this current prototype. During that interview, he was asked about AI training data and how it’s used and whether or not he sympathizes with creators who see their work used without adequate compensation.

“I think that in any new medium in technology, there are concepts around fair use and where the boundary is between what you have control over,” Zuckerberg told The Verge during that interview. “When you put something out in the world, to what degree do you still get to control it and own it and license it?”“I think that all these things are basically going to need to get re-litigated and re-discussed in the AI era. I get it. These are important questions. I think this is not a completely novel thing to AI, in the grand scheme of things. There were questions about it with the internet overall too, with different technologies over time. But getting to clarity on that is going to be important, so that way, the things that society wants people to build, they can go build.”

When asked if he sees a scenario where creators get directly compensated for the use of their content to train AI models, Zuck became a bit cagey.

“I think there are a lot of different possibilities for how stuff goes in the future. Now, I do think that there’s this issue. While, psychologically I understand what you’re saying, I think individual creators or publishers tend to overestimate the value of their specific content in the grand scheme of this.”