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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.

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Formerly inebriated people.

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

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

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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.

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

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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 😜🍔

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Capitalist dystopia in its essence. Fetish for AI and normalization of mass surveillance, after all, AI’s need to be fed, right?

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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.

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Hah, a line a burger king.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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The real reason to go is the Bitties in the BK Lounge.

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What? Their fries are so good tho.

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58 points

So they are actively encouraging alcoholism?

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

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

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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?

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It’s not alcoholism to be hung over lol

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

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Its brazil dude they have cocaine broblems

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

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47 points

A boring dystopia

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I don’t understand the how this positively indicates a dystopia.

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Legitimately thought this was from the Onion

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