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Would it work if it were real time? You light up, and five minutes later a manager knocks. Dunno about the legality of refusing to open the door, but it does s
by jfengel 1y ago
Would it work if it were real time? You light up, and five minutes later a manager knocks.
Dunno about the legality of refusing to open the door, but it does sound like a way to get banned from a hotel chain.
- lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 1y agoYeah, that’s totally fair. At least they’ll have testimony that the smoking was actually witnessed. Most people aren’t going to even bother fighting that since it actually happened. I just worry about abuse cases and the most obvious one here is false positives being assumed true by everyone who profits from them. Edit: Sorry, that’s from the wrong point of view but I don’t think the answer changes. It seems Rest will have to change a lot of their marketing language to really avoid liability but if someone is actually caught smoking then it’s not likely to manifest.
- jfengel 1y agoThe great thing about that kind of human validation is that if they get a lot of false positives, the managers will start ignoring all of the alerts. It would be unfair to charge people with just a black box algorithm. But a few door knocks could fix that, one way or the other.
- zeroonetwothree 1y agoGenerally you have no rights in a hotel to prevent entry.
- goopypoop 1y agoIs it reasonable to make "use your body to test for carcinogens" part of the manager's job description?
- spauldo 1y agoYeah really, I mean look at how the global population died out in the 1960s because someone walked past them with a lit cigarette. You realize there's a difference between cigarette smoke and mustard gas, right? Standing at the door of a room that someone smoked in will have no effect on your health whatsoever. You need to be standing in the room, while they're smoking, preferably for a few decades.
- goopypoop 1y agopeople from the 60s die every day
- spauldo 1y agoYeah, six decades later.
- goopypoop 1y agoshockingly it's been happening since about 1959