Oh this is just too messed up…now vending machines have cameras in them?
So I may be reading too far into this, but does this machine check your age and ethnicity to work out how much you might be willing to pay for M&Ms then charge you that much?
✨AI✨
they might not have been trying to use the data at the point of sale right away, but having a database of their customer’s faces would be valuable to them for plenty of marketing type reasons
It’s always big data, isn’t it?
it all ends up in a spreadsheet somewhere
It’s all just one giant spreadsheet?
🔫 Always has been
According to the article, it’s done for market research, i.e. finding out who buys what, which is a thing businesses like to know. But also apparently it allows the machine to generate “AI-powered product recommendations”, which i guess means it tailors reccomendations to each user? Which it can do because it has a touch screen, and the touch screen itself already strikes me as full of shit.
That’s what the article says this machine in particular does; but yes, it could totally change the price on you depending on what you look like, and all other kinds of deeply shady things. You can count on a private company to do that kind of thing and then use their favorite argument: it’s technically legal.
It mentioned targeted discounts based on demographic, which sounds to be like pricing things based on demographic.
If the data is local and stays on the machine, I’m guessing they mean the face data. They are probably sending the data about what demographics buy what things at what price point to feed to other machines.
even without the extreme privacy invasion, nobody needs back talk from a vending machine
I feel like the solution is wearing fur suits and daftpunk style helmets every where. I’m okay with this.
The solution is definitely to spray paint, or tape over the camera.
Yes, but no one noticed until the the stupid obvious error message.
Have you seen the camera? They intentionally hid it as well.
Looks like someone drilled a hole with a pocket knife and put a camera in.
Shady shit.
People be lookin at the camera with masks on like:
