{"id":288752,"date":"2026-07-12T16:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-12T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/lorde-ai-glasses-criticism-sparks-privacy-debate\/"},"modified":"2026-07-12T18:55:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-12T22:55:08","slug":"lorde-ai-glasses-criticism-sparks-privacy-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/12\/lorde-ai-glasses-criticism-sparks-privacy-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorde AI glasses criticism Sparks Privacy Debate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.cryptonomist.ch\/2026\/07\/12\/lorde-ai-glasses-criticism\/\">Lorde AI glasses criticism Sparks Privacy Debate<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.cryptonomist.ch\/2026\/07\/12\/lorde-ai-glasses-criticism\/\">https:\/\/en.cryptonomist.ch\/2026\/07\/12\/lorde-ai-glasses-criticism\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-12 16:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"en.cryptonomist.ch\">en.cryptonomist.ch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was a moment at Madrid\u2019s Real Cool Festival on Thursday when Lorde stopped mid-set, thanked the crowd for being part of \u201csomething real,\u201d and then went off. Her target: AI smart glasses. The singer\u2019s <strong>criticism of AI glasses<\/strong> spread quickly across social media, resonating far beyond the festival crowd \u2014 and landing right in the middle of one of tech\u2019s most uncomfortable conversations about privacy, surveillance, and what it means to feel watched.<\/p>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Key_takeaways\"\/>Key takeaways<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Lorde called AI smart glasses \u201cnot sexy\u201d during her Real Cool Festival performance in Madrid, urging fans not to buy them.<\/li>\n<li>She did not name brands directly, but Ray-Ban \u2014 a festival sponsor that collaborated with Meta on AI glasses \u2014 was the implied target.<\/li>\n<li>Blackpink\u2019s Jennie, a Ray-Ban Meta AI ambassador, performed at the same festival and appeared in promotional videos screened between sets.<\/li>\n<li>Meta is facing multiple investigations and lawsuits over privacy concerns tied to its AI glasses, while reportedly developing \u201csuper-sensing\u201d glasses that continuously record audio and take photos.<\/li>\n<li>Meta recently announced a camera safety update disabling recording when the glasses\u2019 LED indicator is tampered with \u2014 an admission that some users had already been covering the light to record covertly.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"Lordes_Critique_of_AI_Smart_Glasses_at_the_Real_Cool_Festival\"\/>Lorde\u2019s Critique of AI Smart Glasses at the Real Cool Festival<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"\/><\/h2>\n<p>\u201cIncreasingly in our world it gets harder and harder to know what is real,\u201d Lorde told the Madrid crowd, building toward her point. Then came the unambiguous conclusion: <strong>\u201cFuck the glasses. Don\u2019t get the glasses. Not sexy.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The comments were captured on video and circulated widely on social media. In her remarks, Lorde described the discomfort of not being able to tell whether someone nearby is simply wearing sunglasses or quietly recording everything in sight through an AI-enabled device. It was a visceral, blunt articulation of something many people feel but rarely say out loud at a music festival \u2014 with a&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.cryptonomist.ch\/2026\/07\/12\/lorde-ai-glasses-criticism\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lorde AI glasses criticism Sparks Privacy Debate https:\/\/en.cryptonomist.ch\/2026\/07\/12\/lorde-ai-glasses-criticism\/ Publish Date: 2026-07-12 16:31:00 Source Domain: en.cryptonomist.ch&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":288753,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cryptonomist.ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/lorde-ai-glasses-criticism.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-288752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288752"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288752"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288752\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":288754,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288752\/revisions\/288754"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}