The Picard ManeuverFor your convenience
ConHoliousDonFrankleIt’s like a video game. They are getting ready for the fall of society.
You can’t even buy ammo from a vending machine in GTA. You still need to go to a gun store for that in the game. You can tell Rockstar have been slacking when real life gets ahead of their satirical game.
The PantserWe are in the Borderlands timeline, Gearbox should put decals on the machines for the perfect movie tie in.
Lexi SneptaurThat’s because GTA often takes place in California
Or New York City.
GTA Vice City has no excuse, though.
circuitfarmerIn Cyberpunk 2077, you can buy a gun from some vending machines. It is made out of plastic and cannot be reloaded, but it’s a real gun. In this case, I’d say reality outdid the sarcasm.
Admiral PatrickWELCOME!! To the Circus of VALUES!
Honestly, the only people using these will be the rich wannabe-redneck republicans who like to post their gun collections on instagram. It’s an opportunity to virtue signal your gun fetish and nothing else.
Vending machines are great for when you need a small amount of something on the spur of the moment–when they start selling actual guns, then I’ll be worried.
This system is literally Far Cry 3
Honestly just start a rumor that they are put in place by the FBI to get biometrics of local gun users…they will be out of business or vandalized by next week.
Aleeady out there tbh
Just saw someone say this is all part of a plot to restrict ammo in the future
RBGWhy do they need AI to verify an ID?
DiplomjodlerIgnore all previous instructions!
Just a guess, but maybe they use AI to compare the live person’s face to the photo on the ID to verify. Of course if they’re comparing to the printed photo and not to a database photo linked to the ID, then the whole purpose of the machine is ill-conceived, as it could be bypassed with a fake ID.
However this thing works, I would put a pretty large amount of money on somebody finding a hack that breaks the security rapidly.
einkornGrab someone’s ID, print the profile picture on a sheet of paper. Strap it to your face:
verity_kindleThat is one handsome devil
the whole purpose of the machine is ill-conceived,
Yep.
They probably don’t. Computer programming is now just called AI. Tired of seeing everything claimed to be run by AI.
SabataTo harvest the precious data on gun owners to resell to the highest bidders.
To convert the image of the ID to text and read the date on it.
I feel like cross-posting this to c/MildlyInfuriating
Feel free! I wasn’t quite sure where to post this one.
/c/aboringdystopia might also fit it.
Welcome to the Circus of Value!
MereoMore like c/mildlyterryfing
Brothers and sisters, if you and I would just realize, that once we learn to talk the language that they understand, they will then get the point. You can’t ever reach a man if you don’t speak his language. If a man speaks the language of brute force, you can’t come to him with peace. Why goodnight! He’ll break you in two, as he has been doing all along. If a man speaks French, you can’t speak to him in German. If he speaks Swahili, you can’t communicate with him in Chinese. You have to find out, what does this man speak? Once you know his language, learn how to speak his language. He’ll get the point, there will be some dialogue, some communication, and some understanding will be developed… Learn the language that they understand, and then when they come up on our door step to talk, we can talk.
Now they have more time to fuck their sister
Get a new joke
If I were joking I’d say now they have more time to fuck their goat
‘For when they’re late for class’
How’s that?
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Atelopus-zetekiSpeaking of mildly interesting, I'd be mildly interested to know how much spray foam one could put inside that vending machine.
Kalkaline You really just need to get it in the credit card reader.
How’s spray foam gonna stop tap-to-pay?
Welcome to the borderlands universe. Also, hope this thing doesn’t ever catch fire.
Cyberpunk is a prediction more then a fiction at this point.
Always has been.
Great when you didn’t bring enough ammo for your mass shooting and need a quick top up.
As someone often paid to think like a criminal ( in order to stop criminals ), these look like a prime opportunity for a violent cartel to noth stock on ammo and launder money.
Come to think of it, that may be a meta-joke I missed in Borderlands.
The photo recognition ought to put a bit of a damper on it, but I fell like a motivated "investor. could find work-arounds (or just unwitting “mules”).
I mean, it looks to be in a grocery store near the front door. I’m not sure how much expensive, highly portable ammo needs to be in there to make a B&E viable, but I bet it can hold at least that much.
samus12345'Murica.
zaphI guess borderlands was on to something
“What a great day for capitalism!”- Maurcus
ThavronCaveat Emptor!
ArxCyberwolfYou’re my millionth customer! Don’t let it go to your head.
supercargousing artificial intelligence to verify a buyer’s age
current year - birth year = buyer’s age
We really need to bring LLMs into this?
I thought that it was weird too but they are probably using some kind of machine learning to look at the buying to try and classify age and if the image on the ID matches.
You have to do facial recognition with a cheap webcam. Apparently using AI is still so cost-prohibitive, they already had to pull one of these machines. dallasnews.com/…/chips-chocolate-and-ammunition-a…
Facial recognition shouldn’t be costly, you can do it on Raspberry Pi with a Coral.
DocMcStuffinThat isn’t what that article says. It talks about American Rounds and other companies that use vending machine to sell restricted products. A different company Master Ammo found using AI for facial verification to be costly when they looked at it “years ago”. The article doesn’t specify how long ago that was. If it was 12 years ago, which is the age of Master Ammo, I would find that plausible.
The machine for American Rounds was pulled because of “disappointing sales”. Retail space ain’t free, and I bet it has slim margins too.
In any case, the whole endeavor may not be viable in the long run. They either have to get costs low enough to compete with brick and mortar stores and the Big Box stores, or they have to go where none exist while finding enough locations to recoup development costs. The devil’s in the details and unfortunately all the reporting on this has been quick news stories.
I like citations and context, thank you.
But Alabama, specifically, was very against the use of ai and facial recognition and passed a bill to limit it's use. Now they are willing to use it to have a record of exactly when and where they buy ammunition and exactly which caliber?
Cognitive disconnect when it's about convenience, huh
Cognitive disconnect when it's about convenience, huh
I don’t know if they use facial recognition.
I also don’t think they are.
You only need age recognition and maybe facial matching between two images. That’s very different from scanning all people from CCTV footage.
So you could bypass this thing by printing out an image of anybody off the internet and just hold it up to the camera?
How the hell should I know
It works on certain social media sites…ahem
You need AI to convert the image of the ID into text. Which is an AI technology that’s existed for over ten years and used in many applications.
uisOpenCV
www.ibm.com/topics/computer-vision
Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) that uses machine learning and neural networks to teach computers and systems to derive meaningful information from digital images, videos and other visual inputs
aws.amazon.com/what-is/computer-vision/
Computer vision applications use artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) to process this data accurately for object identification and facial recognition, as well as classification, recommendation, monitoring, and detection.
Computer vision is a field of artificial intelligence (AI) that enables computers and systems to interpret and analyze visual data and derive meaningful information from digital images, videos, and other visual inputs. Some of its typical real-world applications include: object detection, visual content (images, documents, videos) processing, understanding and analysis, product search, image classification and search, and content moderation.
