According to the Financial Times, the company is testing prototype glasses, which it calls "super-sensing," that snap a photo every few seconds all day, with no button press and no voice command. The pitch is a wearable that remembers your life for you, like where you set down your keys or what someone told you an hour ago.
According to the rumor, the prototype wouldn't light up the small recording indicator that current Meta glasses flash when the camera is on, so people around you wouldn't know they're being photographed. Inside Meta, there's also disagreement over storing all that footage on the company's servers to train its AI, the software Meta improves using the data it collects. That fight is live already, since Meta is in court over who gets to watch the footage its current glasses capture.
Meta's AI training footage from existing glasses has already reached human contractors for review, the FT notes, and included people in bathrooms and people reading their bank details aloud. Always-on glasses would sweep up far more of that.