A Boring Dystopia

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Fast-food chains battle for low-income diners with summer value meals ***Better headline: Fast food restaurants scratch head when customers don’t want to pay higher prices for shitty food. (www.cnbc.com)

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[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 13 points 4 months ago (2 children)

The McDonalds app explicitly stated they will measure your intelligence. Needless to say, I deleted my account and uninstalled.

[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 6 points 3 months ago

Plot twist: time to uninstall is the intelligence test.

[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

But like, how?

[–] archchan@lemmy.ml 11 points 4 months ago

Same as every other corp. A combination of every data point they can get their hands on to build a "consumer" profile on you.

It's that last point, "Inferences", that you should focus on.

[–] ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The captchas to log in are all logic puzzles (I have no idea this is just the first thing that popped into my head)

[–] SqueakyBeaver@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 3 months ago

A lot of captchas normally help train AI models, but I would not be surprised if Google and other captcha providers have tracked your intelligence using captchas