A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial recognition tech.

A college is removing its vending machines after a student discovered they were using facial recognition technology::A photo shared on Reddit showed one of the vending machines with an error code suggesting it used facial recognition tech.

It’s funny how much I love cyberpunk fiction but how much I hate cyberpunk reality. Now if the vending machine becomes sentient? Then we are good, until then I guess fuck these guys?

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I’ll gladly welcome the sentient machines if they can make me a sandwich now and then

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