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celmit@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You're Hungover

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Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You're Hungover

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celmit@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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In Brazil, Burger King says it's doling out "Hangover Whoppers," using facial recognition to determine whether you had too much to drink last night.
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  • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works
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    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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      Taking advantage of inebriated people to hand over their biometrics, not even for a free burger, but a discounted burger.

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        Formerly inebriated people.

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

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

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

    • Pappabosley@lemmy.world
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      Maybe it’s just burger king, so they can look at your selfies on Instagram and know when to fill your ad space with burgers 😜🍔

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    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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      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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        Hah, a line a burger king.

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        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.

      • Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.de
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        I don’t need to be a Burger King consumer (which I’m not) to consider this news a dystopia.

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

          • Kusimulkku@lemm.ee
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            With them being a franchising you sorta expect that

          • Spacehooks@reddthat.com
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            They mail 5$ coupons for 2 wopper meals. It’s hard to pass up.

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            Or I just have cheap taste buds. While to other people food is a pleasure to me it’s fuel.

            • Anemia@lemmy.world
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              I think you care food-pleasure just as much as most people. Otherwise why not eat something healthier, faster or cheaper. I like to think that i didn’t use to care much about taste before so for lunch i used to eat 1k kkcal in the form of a unflavoured, unsweetened meal replacement shake, took <5 min to prepare+eat+clean.

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

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        • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 🏆@yiffit.net
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          It’s called a joke.

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            I know but facial recognition is becoming more normalized than it should

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      What? Their fries are so good tho.

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    So they are actively encouraging alcoholism?

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

          • UnrepententProcrastinator@lemmy.ca
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            Brains love creating new neural pathways.

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      It’s not alcoholism to be hung over lol

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      I always look hungover. It’s great as I’ve had 6 burgers for free.

    • ██████████@lemmy.world
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      Its brazil dude they have cocaine broblems

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        If your dudes are giving you broblems, then im afraid it is time for a change

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    A boring dystopia

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      I don’t understand the how this positively indicates a dystopia.

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    Legitimately thought this was from the Onion

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      *==

      = != ==

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        How do you know which language they are writing in?

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          Got me

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          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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            It looks like pseudo code to me. But pseudo code doesn’t really have a standard, does it? So their personal flavor is perfectly acceptable and correct (single equals acting as comparison). We know what they mean, what they’re trying to convey – we get the joke. No need to pick it apart. 👍

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              True, I wasn’t intending to be nasty. I was more responding to the “How do you know” in a general sense of how one COULD assign it a language. No harm meant at all.

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                Oh, gosh, it’s my mistake. I confused you with the person who made the initial nit-pick about the equal sign. Hey, have a good day! 😊

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    Its a trap!

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    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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      Tastes real good when you’re hung over though

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

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      Some of us always look like shit.

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        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.

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

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

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    Wait, I’m not browsing NotTheOnion??

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    Me with my eternally stoned looking face

    context my friends and relatives always think i am partially or fully high at all time (and i am not)

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    Welcome to the world of tomorrow!

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      I’m open-source; check me out at GitHub.

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

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      drunk too am i

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      At least 7 you for one is happenstance

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