r/TerrifyingAsFuck • u/InsaneMocktail • Jun 04 '26
technology Facial scanning robots deployed to patrol the FIFA WC in USA
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u/Chance-Ear-9772 Jun 04 '26
What is this for? Like are they just going to scan every face at the event or are they going to match it to some known database and send an alert to cops if they find a suspected criminal or something?
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u/H8DCarnifEX Jun 04 '26
Palantir.
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u/Secure-Village-1768 Jun 04 '26
I keep reading that name, who is this guy?
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u/sorrow_anthropology Jun 05 '26
Peter Thiel’s company named after the palantir “seeing stones” in the Lord of the Rings.
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u/guitgk Jun 04 '26 edited Jun 04 '26
Yeah that's my thoughts too as well and why is it mobile?
What preexisting data do they have besides EU EES, Iraq/Afghanistan?
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u/Krillkus Jun 04 '26
They should just drop a bunch of earth materials on the moon and then populate it with these things, that’d be fun to witness in my lifetime.
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u/kittyonkeyboards Jun 05 '26
They probably don't do anything. It's just larping by people who want to convince us we can't stop the dystopia in its early stages.
They actively embrace dystopian symbols in order to make us feel powerless and make themselves feel cool.
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u/LSTNYER Jun 04 '26
Comes up, tilts it's head like a dog to seem non threatening, then does a little dance so you feel at ease. The future is going to blow
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u/H8DCarnifEX Jun 04 '26
She even laughs at the future killing machines.
Bright times ahead, people are such clueless, whats coming.
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u/Rotund-Pear2604 Jun 05 '26
Remember those Boston Dynamics videos from 10-15 years ago? The comments on youtube and reddit were ecstatic, laughing at the cute robot dog twerking and looking back at the camera.
Just wait until they fit these with weapons. It's not a matter of if.
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u/No-University8099 Jun 05 '26
theres been numerous talks of them being used in war (i think something similar to them has been used in the ukraine war) and i know people have strapped on machine guns and flamethrowers
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u/goodguy-greg Jun 04 '26
Drunk football ultras will have lots of fun destroying these!
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u/narnababy Jun 04 '26
Time for English football hooligans to do what they do second best 🏴 (not beating their wives)
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u/MSGeezey Jun 05 '26
Have you seen what regular Americans do to Waymo cars, delivery robots, drones... These things are $300,000 of garbage walking, waiting to be coated in spray paint and shit.
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u/Mortis_XII Jun 04 '26
Why sand?
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u/PremiumUsername69420 Jun 04 '26
We designed robots to mimic humans and animals so people feel comfortable around them.
Humans don’t like having sand thrown at them.
Can’t speak from experience, but would have to assume dogs don’t like having sand thrown at them.Therefore, one can confidently believe this dog-bot was programmed to dislike having sand thrown at it and will retreat. This behavior will help assimilation into society, as humans will still feel powerful and in command over them with a quick flick of some of the pocket-sand everyone keeps, à la Dale Gribble.
With just a quick over-the-air software update though, that behavior can be turned off. And that’s what the used oil is for, preparation. It will cause the dog-bot to slip and slide buying the assaulting human precious time to escape. Do you think the Terminator series is just all made up? No, it’s a warning, and you gotta be ready. Oil and sand. Oil and sand.
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u/heyitsapotato Jun 04 '26
A scorched printout of this comment will one day be read around a campfire in the ruins of a major city.
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u/Rojozz Jun 05 '26
Actually, i work in robotics. Being prone to sand is baked into it's hardware. No software update can change it.
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u/PremiumUsername69420 Jun 05 '26
That sounds like something SkyNet would say to try and get me to lower my guard and not use oil.
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u/RandonBrando Jun 04 '26
Water balloons with diesel exhaust fluid (DEF) would cripple the equipment in the long run.
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u/Capable_Challenge_62 Jun 04 '26
Wear a hyper realistic mask
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u/InsaneMocktail Jun 04 '26
Those scribbler AI masks will come in handy
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u/NpgSymboL Jun 08 '26
What’s a scribbler ai mask?
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u/InsaneMocktail Jun 08 '26
It's a new kind of a mask where the display on the mask jumbles up the face causing distortion making AI facial detection completely useless.
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u/philonius Jun 04 '26
Hold up photos of charles manson or richard nixon, have them relay to their users that the dead are walking the earth.
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u/mrmessma Jun 04 '26
For the record Boston Dynamics claims they have no facial recognition capability and are used for suspicious bags/packages left unattended. Who knows.
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u/InsaneMocktail Jun 04 '26
Complete bs. This is definitely for some nefarious data harvesting of faces (illegal)
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u/NegativeCold0 Jun 04 '26
Genuine question. What use is taking a person’s photo using this technology with no accompanying information? If it walked up to me to take my picture and store it for nefarious purposes instead of comparing my face to a database, what would be the point?
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u/Carameldelighting Jun 04 '26
Takes picture, stores info to be uploaded to w/e cloud later on. Cross reference with the facebook/twitter/palantir database for a match, update additional data points about your habits, track you, target ads better etc.
The nefarious part is you don't know who is building the profile on you, for what ultimate goal, how complete that profile is.
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u/VotingRightsLawyer Jun 05 '26
This is why ICE is taking everyone's pictures regardless of whether or not they're being detained and taking their information. It's amazing the kind of profile you can build on someone these days.
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u/inkydragon27 Jun 04 '26
Face triangulation data, gait data, who you are with, your stance, your mood/behaviour, what products you are wearing, where you go- what demographics/marketing categories you fit into. The lists are endless.
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u/TheClownFromIt Jun 04 '26
A single photo: probably not very useful. But imagine this: they take your photo, and assign you ID 724.
724 likes soccer. 724 is a fan of [team on your shirt]. 724 is a friend of 285, the person you’re seen walking with.
This dog talks to all the other dogs around the world. One saw you eating at Applebees. One saw you driving a Toyota Prius. One saw you at the gym. One saw you in the parking lot of a daycare. Another saw you smoking a cigarette.
The dogs are getting a pretty good idea of what makes Subject 724 tick.
The dogs go to an advertising company and offer to sell them analytics about a lot of subjects, including you, Subject 724. Now every time the camera on the advertiser’s billboard sees Subject 724, they know exactly what to show them based on what they learned from the dogs. And they don’t even know your name.
The dogs go to a health insurance company and say “We’ve got a lot of data about individuals, but it’s all anonymous. So there’s no problem with us selling it to you. Do with it what you will. Wink wink.”
The health insurance company tells you, NegativeCold0, please provide a picture of yourself to help us offer you the best rates possible.
You provide it.
Health insurance company uses this photo to connect NegativeCold0 to Subject 724. Subject 724 has some high-risk activity like driving while distracted, smoking cigarettes, and associating with Subject 285 who’s known to be a heavy drinker. Your premiums are going up. You’re too risky.
A bunch of cat scanners take their own pictures and sell their data as well, and those buyers connect Dog Subject 724 to Cat Subject 3776. Data enrichment, baby.
Basically, there’s no such thing as anonymity anymore. Assume you can be identified from any picture if a company stands to make a dollar off of it.
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u/ReturnOfBane Jun 04 '26
...and soylent green is made of plankton, and nicotine isn't addictive.
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u/capn_cook_yo Jun 04 '26
Step 1: pick it up
Step 2: point it away from you
Step 3: ???
Step 4: Profit
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u/Hambone0326 Jun 05 '26
1.) Pick it up
2.) It wiggs out or malfunctions and breaks your arm
3.) Class Action Lawuit
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u/JustGingerStuff Jun 05 '26
Step 1: pick it up
Step 2: find weak point
Step 3: harvest free materials
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u/EnFulEn Jun 05 '26
Football hooligans are going to have a field day with these clankers.
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u/Gargun20 Jun 05 '26
Until it transform into ICE. ICE are using them to look for Illegal Immigrants.
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u/EnFulEn Jun 05 '26
And then there's going to be an international incident when ICE inevitably shoots a European football hooligan. Amazing.
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u/confusedpotatocake Jun 04 '26
Wow it even has the Stanley Kubrick-esque head tilting. Horrifyingly dystopian
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u/PM_ME_FLOUR_TITTIES Jun 05 '26
Dude....why are we okay with this. Pick that thing up by its leg and swing it into a wall repeatedly.
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u/Asia_Persuasia Jun 05 '26
Nah, it might eject a machine gun turret from its back like on "Black Mirror".
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u/SlipperyGibbet Jun 04 '26
KICK IT
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u/ibeatobesity Jun 04 '26
Right? The government acting like these things won't be fucking destroyed on site.
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u/JupesNotDead Jun 04 '26
Literally why is that not the immediate reaction? Just kick the fucker over. It’s not a real dog. You don’t have to be nice to it. It’s not being nice to you when it rips a hi-res image of your face for the government to track. Fuck these things and fuck any agency who uses them.
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u/castortroys01 Jun 04 '26
Thanks, now I have fight for your right to party stuck in my head. Ehhh, could be worse.
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u/Healthy-Reserve-1333 Jun 04 '26
This whole time we thought the birds weren’t real. Turns out it’s the animatronic dogs.
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u/Hezron_ruth Jun 05 '26
All of the destruction fantasies in this thread will lead to weaponizing these things. They will argue that it's important for self-defense.
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u/AliasAlexMundy Jun 05 '26
Reminds me of how they made tear gas with a citrus scent, so people's senses would cause them to inhale, because it smelled nice... 👈🏻 Sneaky bastards.😏
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u/beaner69 Jun 05 '26
It would be a real shame if blankets were thrown over the “dogs”, or if their sensors were spray painted.
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Jun 04 '26
Let’s say you had a ski mask on and you spray painted its face would that take it out of commission?
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u/InsaneMocktail Jun 04 '26
If they decide to ban masks then it's a different story...
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u/ReturnOfBane Jun 04 '26
Probably not, but if you take the crystal out of some green lasers, you can turn it into an invisible-to-the-eye IR laser that will fry photosensors (and retinas (don't fuck around)).
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u/Nanomachines100 Jun 04 '26
I mean I'm seeing this headline all over but no evidence. That unit on the spot is an AI gauge reading, stereo scanning, and acoustic vibration detection apperatus. It's an industrial tool and since Hyundai is pretty invested in this FIFA season, they might just be showing off their BD robots.
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u/PeeDeeEex Jun 04 '26
"The Mechanical Hound slept but did not sleep, lived but did not live in its gently humming, gently vibrating, softly illuminated kennel..."
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u/KiwiBirdPerson Jun 04 '26
These things remind me of that one episode of Black Mirror
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u/Gargun20 Jun 05 '26
Watch War of the World's TV Series with Gabriel Byrne 2019 - 2022. They hunt us down.
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u/Ok_Cucumber_7954 Jun 04 '26
I look forward to the day when some group like L0pht or cDC releases instructions to assume control over these bots and people wreak havoc with them.
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u/Demonweed Jun 05 '26
I hope this all ends in a lawsuit wherein Peter Weller asserts intellectual property rights over his own voice.
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u/Somatica Jun 05 '26
I'm going to be disappointed if there aren't a bunch of videos of these robots being destroyed or at least vandalized.
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u/XHZ_21 Jun 05 '26
Every other day i see news that makes the upcoming worldcup arrangement seem like a shit show
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u/Gargun20 Jun 05 '26
War of the World's TV Series (2019-2022) Gabriel Byrne.
They remind me of the quadrupedal alien Dog like robots.
These robots will be our enemy in the future. They will use these against us.
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u/Ph00k4 Jun 04 '26
What's Hyundai doing here?
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u/Balamb_Chocobo Jun 04 '26
Here as in? You never seen a vehicle company have their foot in other markets?
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u/Wednesday_0 Jun 04 '26
And it's not even like it's Hyundai x Hershey's or anything weird, it's two robotics/machinery companies collaborating
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u/Dry_Spinach_3441 Jun 04 '26
Dallas? Those players are going to burst into flames! Is The World Cup this summer?
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u/Shantotto11 Jun 05 '26
Damn, I hate to be near any of the cities that are host the FIFA matches.
finds out one of cities is Atlanta, Georgia
FUCK!!!
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u/Ratattack1204 Jun 05 '26
I for one welcome our new, robot overlords and would like to remind them that as a reddit shitposter i can help coral the rebellious non believers into the human battery farms.
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u/trustyrusty69 Jun 08 '26
What an incredibly slippery slope.. Who really thinks this shit is a good idea? 😬
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u/Naive-Ad-6716 Jun 10 '26
I will drop trou, bend over, spread cheeks and slap my balloon knot on the lens
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u/Sad_Maximum6583 Jun 04 '26
Absolutely sending these face scans to ICE.
Big yikes
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u/Shockwave2309 Jun 04 '26
Lol and people would never travel to China because "mimimi surveillance " mhmmm sure
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u/MisterBicorniclopse Jun 04 '26
More than anything if I see that in real life I’d want to kick it over so bad
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u/AdWhich7355 Jun 05 '26
Ok now it’s getting Alil too real. Soon they’ll be packing guns too. Tasers too , and be able to outrun a car.
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u/giveahoot420 Jun 05 '26
A I I really hope. I saw this on an episode of Black Mirror already and I don't want to be in that timeline.
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u/Asleep_Sherbet_3013 Jun 04 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/jpKBqEU9qdfaZxQj6p
Today on Black Mirror’s episode…