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AI-powered vending machines that sell bullets could be hacked, says a cybersecurity expert (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 5 days ago by cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/technology@lemmy.world
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Oh my. https://bioshock.fandom.com/wiki/Vending_Machines_(Rapture)

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[–] hannesh93@feddit.org 89 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Why does a vending machine even have AI in the first place?

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 67 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Because it is currently the most advanced way to pretend you are doing age verification when really you aren't that is available on the market.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

How about this: scan your state issued ID. My license has a barcode, and bars already scan it, so it's a solved problem, no AI needed. The process should essentially be:

  1. scan license
  2. snap picture of face
  3. send to police for lookup - needed to verify you're not a felon or whatever, there's more to it than just age verification
  4. accept or reject transaction

The only AI that needs to exist would be at the local precinct, and used for related ID verification checks.

Or how about this, instead of all this BS, put the vending machine in the store and have a clerk check your ID like they normally would.

[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 8 points 5 days ago

But that is boring, that might actually solve the problem and doesn't have any hype keywords to get anyone to overvalue your company and buy it.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 2 points 5 days ago

I dont understand 3. That's AI or you're waiting 6 months before 4

[–] KillerWhale@orcas.enjoying.yachts 1 points 4 days ago

That is clearly an invasion of privacy and a my # amendment rights /s

[–] Starbuck@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Things like this are literally just so that there is a test case to make it up to the Supreme Court. They do something ridiculous that obviously violates the intent of the law but mostly stays inside the letter of the law, in hopes that the Supreme Court will take it up and overturn the law. So, yes, the fact that the vending machine can technically sell bullets to minors is a feature, not a bug. Why is their endgame getting rid of age restrictions for firearms and ammunition? You’d have to ask the death cult themselves about that one.

[–] jagged_circle@feddit.nl 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Because AI is racist and the US never developed gun laws until a bunch of black folks in California decided to exercise their rights