• Smuuthbrane
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    959 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
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      559 months ago

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

      • Smuuthbrane
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        229 months ago

        Formerly inebriated people.

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

        • Ech
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          129 months ago

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

    • @einlander
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      289 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
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        39 months ago

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

    • @Pappabosley
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      29 months ago

      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 😜🍔

  • Chemical Wonka
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    859 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
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      219 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.

      • @[email protected]
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        109 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.

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

      • @[email protected]
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        49 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
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          59 months ago

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

          • @[email protected]
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            19 months ago

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

            • @Anemia
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              69 months ago

              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.

  • @MeanEYE
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    599 months ago

    So they are actively encouraging alcoholism?

    • Nomecks
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      209 months ago

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

      • @[email protected]
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        39 months ago

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

        • Nomecks
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          39 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
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            39 months ago

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

    • yesdogishere
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      29 months ago

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

      • @Siegfried
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        39 months ago

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

  • @slaacaa
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    489 months ago

    A boring dystopia

  • @MysticKetchup
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    379 months ago

    Legitimately thought this was from the Onion

    • geogle
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      199 months ago

      *==

      = != ==

      • Victor
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        109 months ago

        How do you know which language they are writing in?

        • geogle
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          69 months ago

          Got me

        • @NegativeInf
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          49 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.

          • Victor
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            19 months ago

            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. 👍

            • @NegativeInf
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              29 months ago

              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.

              • Victor
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                29 months ago

                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! 😊

  • BruceTwarzen
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    209 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.

  • eighthourlunch
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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.

  • @Mango
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    119 months ago

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

      • @Mango
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        39 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.

    • @CADmonkey
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      49 months ago

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

  • Victor
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    109 months ago

    Wait, I’m not browsing NotTheOnion??

  • @brlemworld
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    59 months ago

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