Facial-recognition data is typically used to prompt more vending machine sales.

  • magnetosphere@kbin.social
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    8 months ago

    Because people are dumb. If the machine knows when someone is looking at it, it can stop doing whatever it does to try and get your attention, and put itself in “sales mode”.

    Still, you’re right. It seems like an overly complicated and expensive solution. Old-fashioned vending machines did the job just fine.