{"id":798260,"date":"2026-07-13T03:11:12","date_gmt":"2026-07-13T03:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798260\/"},"modified":"2026-07-13T03:11:12","modified_gmt":"2026-07-13T03:11:12","slug":"lorde-says-ray-ban-meta-ai-glasses-are-not-sexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/798260\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorde says Ray-Ban Meta AI glasses are \u2018not sexy\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her set to <a href=\"https:\/\/stereogum.com\/2504954\/lorde-speaks-out-against-fucked-up-ai-glasses\/news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">speak out against AI glasses<\/a>. While she didn\u2019t specify any brands in particular, it\u2019s likely she was taking a shot at festival sponsor Ray-Ban, which has collaborated with Meta on a pair of AI smartglasses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The comments were <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Lorde_fix\/status\/2075567105991409975?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E2075567105991409975%7Ctwgr%5Ec71b57c1ddf5c52f8aac6358167f15e590da1832%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fstereogum.com%2F2504954%2Florde-speaks-out-against-fucked-up-ai-glasses%2Fnews\" rel=\"nofollow\">captured in videos<\/a> shared to social media. After thanking the crowd for being there and taking part in \u201csomething real,\u201d she said that it was increasingly hard to know is and isn\u2019t real, before saying \u201cYou don\u2019t know if someone is wearing sunglasses or if they\u2019re wearing those fucked up fucking\u2026 Can I just say, for the record, fuck the glasses. Don\u2019t get the glasses. Not sexy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The comments come as Meta faces <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/961707\/smart-glasses-ai-wearables-meta-surveillance-privacy\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">renewed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/column\/881744\/meta-smart-glasses-facial-recognition-rayban-privacy-wearables\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">scrutiny<\/a> over its smart glasses. And, even in the face of that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/gadgets\/962514\/meta-privacy-light-tampering-smart-glasses-update\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">backlash<\/a>, it is still reportedly planning to launch a pair of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tech\/963138\/meta-smart-glasses-recording-super-sensing-ai\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">super sensing<\/a>\u201d glasses that are continuously recording.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">According to Stereogum, Lorde was followed on stage by Blackpink\u2019s Jennie, who is a Ray-Ban Meta AI ambassador and has been featured in advertising campaigns on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DXHjXdsiE6d\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=NTc4MTIwNjQ2YQ==\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a> and in a video screened between sets at Real Cool.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lorde was performing at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid on Thursday and took some time during her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798261,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[62,49,48,75,195,281,341,44,64,227],"class_list":["post-798260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ai","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-gadgets","tag-meta","tag-music","tag-news","tag-tech","tag-wearable"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=798260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798260\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}