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[–] 95 points 2 years ago (3 children)

So, who is providing the software? Because that's who is paying to get a unique data set of face images. Specifically Brazilian faces of people who either self-indentify as hung over or want to try to game the system for a discount. I'll let you guess which population is going to be bigger.

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  • [–] 55 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Taking advantage of inebriated people to hand over their biometrics, not even for a free burger, but a discounted burger.

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  • [–] 28 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Feels like their training AI with live data until it gets good at detecting drunk people. Law enforcement and private security will love it. Precrime detectors in Training.

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    [–] 85 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Capitalist dystopia in its essence. Fetish for AI and normalization of mass surveillance, after all, AI's need to be fed, right?

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  • [–] 21 points 2 years ago (7 children)

    If you're in line at Burger King, your life's already in kind of a dystopian place as it is. Clearly, several things have gone wrong for you to end up here.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I prefer Burger King over most restaurants.

    I'm probably going to order a burger anyways so I don't see the need to pay extra for a fancy one that I need a knife and fork to eat when I can get just as tasty burger from BK.

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    [–] 59 points 2 years ago (5 children)

    So they are actively encouraging alcoholism?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    If you take a real close look at alcohol culture you might notice hock shockingly widesperead, ancient and insane it all is

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    When I was my kids age, it's what was fun. Now, it's been mostly replaced by gaming with friends.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    That's a tiny microcosm of alcohol culture. Would you like to comment on the right way to drink scotch, or what characteristics make a bottle of fermented grape juice worth $10,000? Maybe have some blood of your savior?

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    [–] 48 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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    [–] 37 points 2 years ago

    Legitimately thought this was from the Onion

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  • [–] 32 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)
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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    How do you know which language they are writing in?

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  • [–] 20 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Do the legal drug to let A.I descide if you had enough of it to get the shittiest meal possible for cheaper.

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    [–] 20 points 2 years ago

    Its a trap!

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Now everyone's gonna be going around looking like shit for some extra pocket money.

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  • [–] 11 points 2 years ago*

    They meant to say fecal recognition. They're struggling to determine the difference between a Whopper and a whopping dookie. No luck so far, and I doubt an app is going to help.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    Every day I thank the universe I learned how to cook for myself

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  • [–] 10 points 2 years ago

    Wait, I'm not browsing NotTheOnion??

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    Why would anybody would Burger King in any state of being?

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    AI that reads your face and starts cooking what you're hungry for is in the right direction.. that's more of the cities in the clouds, Jetsons world than the Phillip K. Dick kinda place that we're cultivating..

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    [–] [B] 2 points 2 years ago

    This is the best summary I could come up with:


    The Brazilian wing of Burger King announced a surveillance technology marketing stunt this week called the “Hangover Whopper,” celebrating the booze-filled days between Christmas and New Year’s with facial recognition.

    “At the end of the year, it’s Friday every day, and the hangover kicks in,” a vaguely robotic voice says as images of cheeseburgers glitch in and out over fake computer code.

    The Burger King software thought for a second, and then recommended the Double Whopper Jr. That’s only a one on the hangover scale — tell that to my headache — but I did earn a little discount for my privacy sacrifice: a coupon code for R$3.00, or about $0.62 in American dollars.

    For the last decade, advocates raised alarms over the creeping spread of facial recognition, a technology that promises to destroy the few remaining shreds of privacy we have left.

    Just last week, the FTC banned Rite Aid from using facial recognition for five years after an investigation found the drugstore used a lazy implementation of the technology to falsely accuse thousands of people of shoplifting, including one incident involving an 11-year-old girl.

    It’s also functionally useless for other things like measuring your emotions, detecting political affiliations, or finding you a date, despite the dozens of companies promising digital phrenology.


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