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[–] [email protected] 95 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 55 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Formerly inebriated people.

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

[–] [email protected] 12 points 10 months ago

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

[–] einlander 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 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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[–] [email protected] 85 points 10 months 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?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 10 months 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.

[–] RisingSwell 14 points 10 months ago

Hah, a line a burger king.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 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.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

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

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months 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.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

With them being a franchising you sorta expect that

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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

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[–] MeanEYE 59 points 10 months ago (5 children)

So they are actively encouraging alcoholism?

[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months 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?

[–] Maggoty 3 points 10 months ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago

It's not alcoholism to be hung over lol

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

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

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[–] slaacaa 48 points 10 months ago (2 children)
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[–] MysticKetchup 37 points 10 months ago

Legitimately thought this was from the Onion

[–] [email protected] 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)
[–] geogle 19 points 10 months ago (2 children)
[–] victorz 10 points 10 months ago (3 children)

How do you know which language they are writing in?

[–] geogle 6 points 10 months ago
[–] NegativeInf 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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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[–] [email protected] 6 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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 20 points 10 months ago

Its a trap!

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 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.

[–] Mango 11 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Some of us always look like shit.

[–] Mango 3 points 10 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.

[–] victorz 10 points 10 months ago

Wait, I'm not browsing NotTheOnion??

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] CADmonkey 4 points 10 months ago

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

[–] hal_5700X 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

Here is an alternative Piped link(s):

Welcome to the world of tomorrow

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

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

[–] brlemworld 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] MaxVoltage 4 points 10 months ago

drunk too am i

[–] ripcord 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

At least 7 you for one is happenstance

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

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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