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Burger King Giving Discounts If Facial Recognition Thinks You're Hungover
Submitted 9 months ago by celmit@lemmy.ca to technology@lemmy.world
https://gizmodo.com/burger-king-giving-discounts-if-facial-recognition-thin-1851124496
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chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
Chozo@kbin.social 9 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.
hubobes@sh.itjust.works 9 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.
RisingSwell@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Hah, a line a burger king.
Critical_Insight@feddit.uk 9 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.
chemicalwonka@discuss.tchncs.de 9 months ago
I don’t need to be a Burger King consumer (which I’m not) to find this news a dystopia.
OceanSoap@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
What? Their fries are so good tho.
MeanEYE@lemmy.world 9 months ago
So they are actively encouraging alcoholism?
Nomecks@lemmy.ca 9 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 9 months ago
When I was my kids age, it’s what was fun. Now, it’s been mostly replaced by gaming with friends.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’s not alcoholism to be hung over lol
yesdogishere@kbin.social 9 months ago
I always look hungover. It’s great as I’ve had 6 burgers for free.
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Its brazil dude they have cocaine broblems
Siegfried@lemmy.world 9 months ago
If your dudes are giving you broblems, then im afraid it is time for a change
slaacaa@lemmy.world 9 months ago
A boring dystopia
Leate_Wonceslace@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 months ago
I don’t understand the how this positively indicates a dystopia.
LWD@lemm.ee 9 months ago
I could have written that algorithm for them.
IsCustomerHungover() if restaurant=Burger King return true else return true # out of spite tbh
geogle@lemmy.world 9 months ago
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= != ==victorz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
How do you know which language they are writing in?
LWD@lemm.ee 9 months ago
It’s okay I wrote this in basic
MysticKetchup@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Legitimately thought this was from the Onion
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 9 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.
Kusimulkku@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Tastes real good when you’re hung over though
RanchOnPancakes@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Its a trap!
eighthourlunch@kbin.social 9 months ago
They meant tosay 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.
victorz@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Wait, I’m not browsing NotTheOnion??
Mango@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Now everyone’s gonna be going around looking like shit for some extra pocket money.
averagedrunk@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Some of us always look like shit.
Mango@lemmy.world 9 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.
brlemworld@lemmy.world 9 months ago
Why would anybody would Burger King in any state of being?
ripcord@lemmy.world 9 months ago
At least 7 you for one.is happenstance
MaxVoltage@lemmy.world 9 months ago
drunk too am i
theodewere@kbin.social 9 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..
LWD@lemm.ee 9 months ago
Cross reference my food interests with the Palantir databases please, and refer my calorie intake to my healthcare provider.
THE_ANON@lemmy.ml 9 months ago
Me with my eternally stoned looking face
hal_5700X@lemmy.world 9 months ago
autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] 9 months 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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circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org 9 months ago
Joke’s on them. I stop going in to not have my face scanned and then just starve.
sugarfree@lemmy.world 9 months ago
LOL
smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.works 9 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 9 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 9 months ago
Formerly inebriated people.
A free burger would make for a very expensive data set methinks.
einlander@lemmy.world 9 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 9 months ago
But they’re not using drunk people, they’re using hung over people. Not sure why, it’s an interesting question.