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title: "Meta glasses are a workplace menace"
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description: "An employee at Target reported that customers wearing Ray-Ban Meta glasses repeatedly pranked staff by asking for price checks while secretly recording interactions. The incident highlights concerns about these AI-enabled glasses being used as a workplace menace, with the wearers also antagonizing management and misgendering the employee."
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# Meta glasses are a workplace menace

In August, Toru Hinkle was stocking shelves at their job at Target when they noticed two customers and asked if they needed any help. The men requested a price check on an item - but even after Hinkle told them the item was $20, the customers asked for the price again and again.

"After a while, I realized that I'm basically being pranked, and I noticed the glasses," Hinkle says, referring to the frames with a blinking light. They were the Ray-Ban Meta glasses, and the customers were filming. Hinkle eventually called a store manager over, but the pranksters antagonized her, too - asking the price repeatedly, deliberately misgendering Hinkle …

Read the full story at The Verge.

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