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.
Formerly inebriated people.
A free burger would make for a very expensive data set methinks.
Oh no, they'd get slightly less obscenely wealthy on the exploitation of ill-gotten biometrics *shockedpikachuface*
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.
But they're not using drunk people, they're using hung over people. Not sure why, it's an interesting question.
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 😜🍔
Capitalist dystopia in its essence. Fetish for AI and normalization of mass surveillance, after all, AI's need to be fed, right?
What? Their fries are so good tho.
So they are actively encouraging alcoholism?
If you take a real close look at alcohol culture you might notice hock shockingly widesperead, ancient and insane it all is
When I was my kids age, it's what was fun. Now, it's been mostly replaced by gaming with friends.
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?
It's not real scotch unless it has a square foot of peat served next to it.
Brains love creating new neural pathways.
It's not alcoholism to be hung over lol
Its brazil dude they have cocaine broblems
If your dudes are giving you broblems, then im afraid it is time for a change
A boring dystopia
I don't understand the how this positively indicates a dystopia.
Legitimately thought this was from the Onion
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How do you know which language they are writing in?
Got me
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.
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. 👍
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.
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!
Now everyone's gonna be going around looking like shit for some extra pocket money.
Some of us always look like shit.
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.
Every day I thank the universe I learned how to cook for myself
Two things have saved me money in this life - being able to cook, and being able to fix things.
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Why would anybody would Burger King in any state of being?
drunk too am i
At least 7 you for one is happenstance
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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Joke's on them. I stop going in to not have my face scanned and then just starve.
LOL