Japanese Taxicab uses face recognition software to decide what kind of garbage to play on its seatback display

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Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/04/23/japanese-taxicab-uses-face-rec.html

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“We’re helping deliver the experience our customers want!”

More apropos quotes.

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Welcome to the A.I. terf-pocalypse.

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I know this seems invasive to people, but how else will they know whether to run ads for body butter or ads for chainsaws? /s (I’m so sad every time I use that tag that the sarcasm is not self-evident)

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And if a couple passengers start making out, it plays a soothing medley of porn.

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As always the Hitchhiker’s Guide put it best:

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Welcome to cyberpunk. Your rights must fit into the overhead carrion.

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Please, please don’t let that be a typo. The image of rights being dead and vultures circling is just too perfect.

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( ͡~ ͜ʖ ͡°)

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Did you choose the Rising Sun flag on purpose up there?

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  1. Duct tape. Never leave home without it.
  2. So Google has “privacy engineers”. What exactly is their job, finding new and exciting profitable ways to invade/circumvent it?
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Looks like a great place to drape a jacket. Shame if something overheated.

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That would be to comply with the Japanese Personal Information Processing Act which is a saner version of GDPR.

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On the plus side, it probably doesn’t work on gaijin faces.

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“Hmm, this looks like the kind of person that would like streaming BoingBoing comments for their trip to the airport. They have just that kind of face.”

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“If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.”
We have found 5 shoe stores in your area…

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Let me answer in jest: I am considering dressing as a woman in my next trip to Japan to see the advertising for body butter. Scantily clad body butter models seem to be more “interesting” than chainsaws. :innocent:

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A device that uses gender stereotypes to perpetuate gender stereotypes in hopes of selling people things they probably don’t need. Wonderful.

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That sounds like a description of our entire culture!

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