Spying on Myself and Others at the Kylie Jenner Meta Glasses Party
A reporter attends a Meta-hosted party in New York to test the new Starfire smart glasses, which feature an AI assistant voiced by Kylie Jenner. The experience highlights the surreal nature of wearable recording technology and the integration of celebrity personas into AI.
Why it matters
This reflects the growing trend of integrating AI assistants into consumer hardware and the ethical implications of constant, wearable recording devices.
The party is too loud for Kylie Jenner to hear me, but if she could, a Meta assistant tells me, she could tell me where the nearest late-night bakery is. We are not talking about the living, breathing Kylie Jenner, who was briefly here in a Tom Ford–era Gucci dress, along with her boyfriend, Timothée Chalamet, in a cinched-up hoodie, to launch the new Meta smart glasses she designed. We are talking about the virtual Kylie Jenner that lives inside the smart glasses, an AI assistant officially voiced by Jenner. The $399 rounded cat-eye spectacles, called Starfire, reportedly begin each wearer’s day with Jenner’s now-iconic quote: “Rise and shine.”
The piece is a descriptive, observational feature that focuses on the user experience rather than political or social advocacy.
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