In Brazil, Burger King says it's doling out "Hangover Whoppers," using facial recognition to determine whether you had too much to drink last night.
  • Smuuthbrane@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    95·
    1 year 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.eeEnglish
      55·
      1 year ago

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

        • Ech@lemm.eeEnglish
          12·
          1 year ago

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

    • einlander@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      1 year 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.worksEnglish
        3·
        1 year ago

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

    • Pappabosley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 year 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 😜🍔

        • NegativeInf@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          1 year 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            1 year 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
              2·
              1 year 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
                2·
                1 year 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! 😊

  • eighthourlunch@kbin.social
    12·
    1 year 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.

    • CADmonkey@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

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

  • AutoTL;DR@lemmings.worldBEnglish
    2·
    1 year 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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