Oh this is just too messed up…now vending machines have cameras in them?

  • cobra89@beehaw.org
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    8 months ago

    The company’s documentation says it’s for detecting when people walk by so it can turn on the screen. Because apparently a good old fashioned motion sensor wasn’t good enough…

    Edit: thought about this for another few seconds. It was probably so they could slap “AI” onto it for marketing.

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      8 months ago

      A motion sensor would get tripped by anything that passes by, but even so, a basic image processing algorithm designed just to detect whether that thing is a human or not would be more than sufficient, there’s no need to identify specific people by face.

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      8 months ago

      That doesn’t explain the demographic profiling though.