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TL;DR: you now need to pay a $20/month "meta premium" subscription to use a 100% offline feature that runs on your own malware-ridden smartglasses.

If you don't subscribe, you can use the feature that is already included in the hardware that you already paid for 3 hours each month

The now-paywalled feature boosts the voice of the speaker in front of you, something that even low-end ANC earphones are doing now. 5 minutes of free usage per day is basically nothing.

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[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 33 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (17 children)

My mom just caught one of her kids using these to cheat on a final. He had them Bluetoothed to his laptop and it disconnected at some point and she heard "the answer to number 7 is...." But she said he barely got a C on it even while cheating. So since she didn't know about the glasses until after that student left and another student told her it was the glasses, she just kinda let it go saying "it's honestly going to be his problem in the future."

Edit: she couldn't pin point the kid at the moment, and wasn't informed who it was until after the kid was gone and the other student told her.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago (11 children)

I'm not a teacher, but I dunno if that's the right response to someone cheating. It is going to be his problem in the future, but as a teacher, isn't it her job to teach the kid that that's not OK? Sorta depends on the age, I suppose, but I'd definitely give the kid a 0% instead of a C.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

She couldn't really have done anything considering she didn't know which kid it was until after they were gone and the other student informed her.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Ahh, that makes a bit more sense I suppose. Innocent until proved guilty and whatnot. I feel like I'd still want to bring them in to confront them about it, to let them know that they didn't really get away with it. Also, obviously, I'd be banning smart glasses from tests.

[–] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

She's visiting for a funeral and I commented something on the commercial for them, and she told me that sorry and about how she has to watch out for them now. Another loose relation is visiting and a teacher as well and I asked them about ai and got two totally different experiences. My mom's class doesn't require a lot of literature as it's a low level bio class, but the loose family is teaching English to troubled youth and sees it absolutely everywhere. She started having them write one paper first day in class to get a feel for their actual writing aptitude.

[–] Joelk111@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Interesting insight of course. I can't imagine being a teacher right now, having to keep up with these things. You're basically forced to become a techie in some ways, when before, many teachers really had no reason or need to learn tech stuff. I guess they had other cheating methods to keep up with, but man, these cheating tools are just evolving so fast these days.

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