Why does a vending machine even have AI in the first place?
AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert
Submitted 5 months ago by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-powered-ammo-vending-machines-could-be-hacked-expert-us-2024-7
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hannesh93@feddit.org 5 months ago
taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Because it is currently the most advanced way to pretend you are doing age verification when really you aren’t that is available on the market.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
How about this: scan your state issued ID. My license has a barcode, and bars already scan it, so it’s a solved problem, no AI needed. The process should essentially be:
- scan license
- snap picture of face
- send to police for lookup - needed to verify you’re not a felon or whatever, there’s more to it than just age verification
- accept or reject transaction
The only AI that needs to exist would be at the local precinct, and used for related ID verification checks.
Starbuck@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Things like this are literally just so that there is a test case to make it up to the Supreme Court. They do something ridiculous that obviously violates the intent of the law but mostly stays inside the letter of the law, in hopes that the Supreme Court will take it up and overturn the law. So, yes, the fact that the vending machine can technically sell bullets to minors is a feature, not a bug. Why is their endgame getting rid of age restrictions for firearms and ammunition? You’d have to ask the death cult themselves about that one.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Because AI is racist and the US never developed gun laws until a bunch of black folks in California and decided to use their rights
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Why in the everliving fuck is that a thing anyone needed? Just go to a gun store and show your ID if needed for fucks sake
We don’t need a new way to buy bullets, we certainly don’t need a vending machine for them, and if we’re getting one anyway it certainly doesn’t need AI, who the fuck dreamt this up and thought it was a good idea??
CarbonatedPastaSauce@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Amoral greedy hateful conservatives.
But I repeat myself.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
As a big proponent of the 2A and generally in favor of less restrictions, I also don’t see the point. Here are the times I’d need ammo:
- at the range - just call someone over and they’ll deliver it to you
- before going hunting - I’m heading to the hunting store anyway, I’ll just pick some up there
- a trip to BLM land to go shooting - pull from stash and refresh it w/ an online order
- when picking up a new gun - gun stores tend to have ammo
Vending machines tend to be in more urban environments, and if I’m there, I either already have ammo (if I’m carrying concealed) or I’m not carrying a firearm anyway. In the rare situation where I’m carrying a firearm w/o ammo (why?), I’m not going to stop and load my gun in public, so why go to the vending machine?
I don’t see any good reason for this to exist. Either order online or pick up along w/ other stuff at the gun store. A vending machine is going to be out of whatever caliber I want anyway and they’ll probably get restocked rarely, so even a mild convenience would likely end up being an inconvenience. So even if it was safe, it’s not solving any problems.
As someone w/ young kids, I definitely don’t want to make access to ammo easier for casual gun owners. Gun enthusiasts already know where to get ammo, this is just going to be a target for bored kids.
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Who cares? You can buy ammo in plenty of places and most of us buy it online for the deep discount.
The AI is for age verification or this idea would never fly.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Fridgeratr@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
“I’ve got bullets with your name on them! Wait that didn’t come out right…”
PlanterTree@discuss.tchncs.de 5 months ago
Is this a borderlands 3 screenshot? Or 2?
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
I think it’s from the Torge DLC in BL2
captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Ok, how about no bullet vending machines because that’s obviously dystopian and if you desperately need bullets and can’t wait to get to a gun shop you have bigger issues
Kolanaki@yiffit.net 5 months ago
Can’t wait for single use, plastic, vending machine guns ala Cyberpunk 2077.
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Does it print ir inject them itself to replenish its own stock?
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Will they market them to kids like cigarettes?
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Surge pricing.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
Hey everyone, lockpickinglawer here. Today I’m going to show you how you can open one ammo vending machine with another ammo vending machine.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Alternate #1: your pickup truck’s steel bumper.
Alternate #2: your cousins Oxy-acc torch
Alternate #3: bricks. Lots of bricks.
Astronauticaldb@lemmy.world 5 months ago
That’s more McNally’s style tbh
brsrklf@jlai.lu 5 months ago
Actual ammo vending machines. That can be tampered with. Great.
Could we not Torment Nexus the rest of Bioshock, please?
a_wild_mimic_appears@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 months ago
From what i can see here, the USA are currently socially regressing from Bioshock 1 to Bioshock Infinite.
Nuke_the_whales@lemmy.world 5 months ago
America is the stupidest damn place that has ever existed
HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 months ago
To be fair, England also exists
Zip2@feddit.uk 5 months ago
At least we didn’t even consider bullet vending machines or drive through liquor stores.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
England still claims 10% of American stupidity as debt service.
Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 5 months ago
Any vending machine can be hacked. We used to get free sodas from one twenty years ago.
ZeffSyde@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Won’t anyone think of the gun owners that have social anxiety that can’t bear to look the guy at the gun shop in the eye and don’t have the time to wait for an online order because IVE GOT TO DO IT TONIGHT IF I DON’T DO IT TONIGHT ITS NEVER GONNA HAPPEN
/s
todd_bonzalez@lemm.ee 5 months ago
The people who use the machine are undoubtedly the same people terrified of a national gun owner registry. A machine that scans your whole face from multiple angles every time you buy ammo…
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 months ago
Neo Libertarians. As long as its a private company with all their biometrics, they’re fine with it
Lojcs@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Does OSM have any bullet vending machines?
Cris_Color@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Thats genuinely amazing. The OSM community doesn’t care if what you built is dumb, they just care if it’s on the map
Props to them
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Nice, that first one is right next to a bank too. So if you show up to rob the place, but forgot your ammo, then you’re set!
HawlSera@lemm.ee 5 months ago
It’s like society wants to be all the fucking worst parts of Mega Man Battle Network
Blaster_M@lemmy.world 5 months ago
All you need is a frequency modulator and to send four pulses of a specific amplitude at the right time in sequence, and then all the bullet costs are discounted.
credo@lemmy.world 5 months ago
AdamEatsAss@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Experts find that water is wet.
SocialMediaRefugee@lemmy.world 5 months ago
A society that wants to be a war zone
MyDogLovesMe@lemmy.world 5 months ago
But voting machines are safe, right? /s
jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You mean like… buying ammo online?
taladar@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
I guess the local sales organizations couldn’t let online stores have take over the entire dystopian market.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Remember when RoboCop dispensed bullets to anyone that did not show ID?
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 months ago
I agree with Chirs Rock that you shouldn’t worry so much about regulating guns as much as regulating ammunition. This was a terrible idea.
c5e3@lemmy.world 5 months ago
luckily we have this cybersecurity export to get that info
jagged_circle@feddit.nl 5 months ago
What happens if the building with this vending machine catches fire?
Or if someone throws a molitov cocktail at it?
GrymEdm@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Bullet vending machines? Just in case you find yourself running out of bullets while out and about in the city?
einkorn@feddit.org 5 months ago
'murica, fuck yeah!
Mr_Blott@feddit.uk 5 months ago
An entire country of fucking cowards 😂
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Hey hey hey, half cowards.
jewbacca117@lemmy.world 5 months ago
For when you run out of 5.56 before third period biology
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Your going to have to disect the lab rat live, fresh from the dumpster.
lemmyng@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
The world would be better off if certain people ate a bullet. But those people usually are not in the vending machine target demographic.
postmateDumbass@lemmy.world 5 months ago
The morning riot used 2 more mags than usual.
shalafi@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Same reason as any other vending machine, impulse buys.
sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 months ago
Ammo should never be an impulse buy, and I say this as a strong proponent of the 2A.