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Students Horrified When Error Message Appears on Vending Machine, Revealing Something Dark (Facial Recognition) (futurism.com)

submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Oh this is just too messed up..now vending machines have cameras in them?

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 8 months ago (10 children)

So I may be reading too far into this, but does this machine check your age and ethnicity to work out how much you might be willing to pay for M&Ms then charge you that much?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (2 children)

The company's documentation says it's for detecting when people walk by so it can turn on the screen. Because apparently a good old fashioned motion sensor wasn't good enough...

Edit: thought about this for another few seconds. It was probably so they could slap "AI" onto it for marketing.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago

A motion sensor would get tripped by anything that passes by, but even so, a basic image processing algorithm designed just to detect whether that thing is a human or not would be more than sufficient, there's no need to identify specific people by face.

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