Meta cuts off contractors who claim to see Ray-Ban Meta users having sex

In February, several employees from the company that Meta contracted to report on Ray-Ban Meta reported. looking at sexy, embarrassing, and intimate photos written by smart glasses. About two months later, Meta terminated its contract with the company.

According to a BBC report today, “less than two months” a report from the Swedish newspapers Svenska Dagbladet and Göteborgs-Posten and independent Kenyan journalist Naipanoi Lepapa came out with Sama employees complaining about viewing pornographic images from Ray-Ban Metas, “Meta terminated its contract with Sama.”

Sama is a Kenyan company contracted by Meta to provide information, including videos, images, and descriptions of Meta’s AI system for Ray-Ban Metas. Sama says Meta’s cancellation of the contract affected 1,108 workers.

A spokesperson for Meta told the BBC that Meta had “decided to terminate our contract with Sama because they are not meeting our expectations.” Ars Technica reached out to Meta and asked how, specifically, Sama failed to meet Meta’s expectations and will update the story if we hear back. Ars reached out to Sama again.

In a statement shared with the BBC, Mr Sama said he had not been informed of the failure to meet Meta’s standards.

The BBC reported that Sama employees believed that Meta terminated the contract because employees talked about seeing Ray-Ban Meta-photographs of people doing things, such as changing clothes, having sex, and using the toilet.

In a statement shared with Ars, Sama said:

We have no say in the events or decisions of the customer, however, we can guarantee that the interaction with Meta will end. Sama has always met the standards of operation, safety, and quality required in all of our customer engagements, and we stand behind the integrity of our work. Our goal is to support our employees during this transition and continue to serve our customers.

In the February report, an unidentified Sama employee was quoted as saying that, according to a machine translation, he “has to do the job” despite seeing the secret images.

After Sama employees told reporters they had seen private photos that appeared to have been taken of unwitting gallery owners, Meta responded by ceasing business with Sama, a spokesman said, according to a BBC report today.