Two Harvard engineering students are using Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses to build an app that can reveal sensitive information about people without them realizing it. Posting a demo of the video on X, the students showcased the app's capability. Notably, the app is not being made publicly available to users but are only highlighting the dangers of AI-powered wearable devices.
The app, dubbed I-Xray, uses artificial intelligence (AI) for facial recognition and then uses processed visual data to doxx individuals.
Doxxing is a popular Internet slang which is a portmanteau of “dropping dox (informal of docs or documents)”, and is the act of revealing personal information about someone without their consent.
The app was first integrated with the Ray-Ban Meta smart glasses, but the developers said that it would work with any smart glasses with discreet cameras. It uses an AI model similar to PimEyes and FaceCheck for reverse facial recognition. The technology can match the face of an individual to publicly available images of them online and scour the URLs.
Another large language model (LLM) is then fed these URLs and an automatic prompt is generated to find out the person's name, occupation, address, and other similar data.
The AI model also looks through publicly available government data such as voter registration databases. Additionally, an online tool named FastPeopleSearch was also used for this.
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