Lorde Bashes AI Glasses Live Onstage
The Verge AI · rss · 2026-07-13
During her performance at the Real Cool Festival in Madrid, Lorde publicly criticized AI glasses as "very unsexy."
She didn't name specific brands, but the context clearly pointed to the Ray-Ban and Meta smart glasses collaboration. She also mentioned that it is becoming increasingly difficult to tell "what is real" nowadays, using the remark to critique the social perception of wearing such devices in public.
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