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[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 95 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 55 points 11 months ago

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

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 22 points 11 months ago

Formerly inebriated people.

A free burger would make for a very expensive data set methinks.

[-] ech@lemm.ee 12 points 11 months ago

Oh no, they'd get slightly less obscenely wealthy on the exploitation of ill-gotten biometrics *shockedpikachuface*

[-] einlander@lemmy.world 28 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 3 points 11 months ago

But they're not using drunk people, they're using hung over people. Not sure why, it's an interesting question.

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[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 85 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Chozo@kbin.social 21 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] RisingSwell@lemmy.world 14 points 11 months ago

Hah, a line a burger king.

[-] hubobes@sh.itjust.works 10 points 11 months ago

No other fast food chain here (we don’t have that many options) has as many vegetarian options, so if I crave a cheap mediocre burger it will probably be Burger King.

[-] chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I don't need to be a Burger King consumer (which I'm not) to consider this news a dystopia.

[-] Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 4 points 11 months ago

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.

[-] key@lemmy.keychat.org 5 points 11 months ago

Burger King where you live must be a hell of a lot better than the ones near me.

[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

With them being a franchising you sorta expect that

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[-] SnotFlickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 11 months ago

The real reason to go is the Bitties in the BK Lounge.

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[-] MeanEYE@lemmy.world 59 points 11 months ago

So they are actively encouraging alcoholism?

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 20 points 11 months ago

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

[-] UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

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

[-] Nomecks@lemmy.ca 3 points 11 months ago

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?

[-] Maggoty@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It's not real scotch unless it has a square foot of peat served next to it.

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[-] Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 points 11 months ago

It's not alcoholism to be hung over lol

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[-] MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 37 points 11 months ago

Legitimately thought this was from the Onion

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[-] geogle@lemmy.world 19 points 11 months ago
[-] victorz@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

How do you know which language they are writing in?

[-] geogle@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago
[-] NegativeInf@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Based on syntax, use of indents for code blocking, and the comment hash, I'd say it's meant to be python but has a bug. But it could always just be pseudo code with a mistake. But it doesn't look like any single = conditional language I know.

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[-] BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 20 points 11 months ago

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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[-] RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 20 points 11 months ago

Its a trap!

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago

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

[-] averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 10 points 11 months ago

Some of us always look like shit.

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

And now I get to accuse you of doing it on purpose!

Really though, being ugly is such a real disadvantage. You may as well have some financial burden lifted for it.

[-] eighthourlunch@kbin.social 11 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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.

[-] pinkdrunkenelephants@lemmy.cafe 10 points 11 months ago

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

[-] CADmonkey@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Two things have saved me money in this life - being able to cook, and being able to fix things.

[-] victorz@lemmy.world 10 points 11 months ago

Wait, I'm not browsing NotTheOnion??

[-] hal_5700X@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago
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[-] brlemworld@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago

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

[-] MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

drunk too am i

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[-] theodewere@kbin.social 4 points 11 months ago

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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