• ComradeSharkfucker
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      It’s so they can use facial recognition to determine which products you are most interested in

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        They can simply count which products are being sold more / run out of stock more quickly.

        (But I get that they probably bought into the hype of AI)

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          It doesn’t store your personal face but it can detect what you are most interested in buying giving corporations better data on how products should be priced. I still think it’s gross

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            how products should be priced

            So grimace and recoil in horror at everything, got it

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            More importantly, it gives them demographic information (sex, age, race, etc). Can’t get that from just sales figures.

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              Get that good surge pricing going for everything.

              You look drunk? Prices go up 30% while they flash booze ads at you.

              Stoned? Cheetos are 250%. Two giddy teenagers looking for condoms? Price them sky high motherfucker!!

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          The company apparently uses AI to process faces to determine gender, approximate age and mood in order to try and figure out which products the person might want.

          I learned this while trying to find tech specs for uhhh… research purposes.