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I actually have a really easy fix that allows you to keep doing this
Just walk out checkouts sounds like a joke lmao
"AI" in commercial applications is always just a guy
Al (it's not a capital I it's a lowercase L)
This is like 90% of AI companies. They promise an automation to get investment, IP claims, etc, but then actually use a ton of global south labor to run it. They usually try to actually build the tech but there's not much pressure because the cheap overseas labor option does actually function, albeit without the savings they promised.
This is what really blackpilled me on the "AI boom". It would have a lot of problems even if it was exactly what it says it is, but in practice in many cases it's another avenue for outsourcing/unequal exchange.
I've seen many and even been a part of a few projects intended to eliminate the need for labor. They almost always end up costing as much or more than just improving working conditions, training, and developing tools to allow the workers to work more effectively. Meanwhile my last company wouldn't fork out the money to fix or replace the failing roof AC unit that caused me and my overdressed coworkers to find every excuse we could to go be somewhere else in the building.
Oh yea it's Marx predicted this time 
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Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts
Obviously, the problem with this system is that Indians are asking for too much money.
I had to abandon my mechanical Turk joke for its transphobic connotation. Cancel culture! /s
Has the left gone too f-
instantly vaporized by the woke trans mob space laser
ALRIGHT WHO'S NEXT
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Disregarding for a moment the exploitation of underpaid global south labour and how this is a dystopian technology originally presented as futuristic, this seems like an awful feature. Like I would probably be riddled by mild anxiety whether I was billed correctly and not overcharged.
I agree lol, but from what I remember, billing errors were more likely to cause you to be undercharged rather than overcharged.
What if your robot was just a guy?
Weird. I don't know how they're going to eliminate that for me. I just walk out of grocery stores all the time.
Wow. Capitalism is even outsourcing their "service economy" stuff. Or trying to anyway.
Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts
They couldn’t just put like an RFID chip on everything and have you walk through a scanner?
Can we not incentivise even more e-waste please?
Are you saying i shouldn't be throwing my devices into the ocean?
Only car batteries, please.
Grocery stores usually do an insane volume of sales compared to most retail. I'm not sure how big these things were but even if they're tiny they're probably selling thousands of units a day. The number of chips they would need and the labor to apply them would almost certainly be unsustainable.
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Isn't this the entire gimmick behind Amazon fresh? Why else would you go there?
Nah, Amazon Fresh is just a regular grocery store. They still have a bunch of other stores with this technology, especially third party vendors i.e. other companies in stadiums and airports mainly who have a contract with Amazon.
I used to work at Amazon on this, and I know A LOT about how this technology works. If I remember correctly, JWO began to separate from Amazon Fresh back in late 2022 when they told us they would cancel JWO in the new Amazon Fresh upcoming stores and use their new dash carts instead. They told us that the focus would instead be selling JWO tech to third party vendors, such as stores in stadiums and airports.
I know (somewhat outdated) about how most of their tech works, as well as some of the internally-stated reasoning behind their business decisions. AMA lol
One thing I know for a fact that is probably the most troubling/dystopian, is that the technology absolutely exists and works pretty well to be able to track the movements of every individual person in a crowd, including by having multiple camera angles as a person moves in and out of view. Drones, satellites, and street cameras can absolutely be used to do this on a fairly large scale, and I have to assume it is being done. Amazon's technology in particular isn't exactly doing this and I don't necessarily think they are providing it to 5 eyes or whatever, but I know for a fact it can and is being done at least for some BS convenience stores.
Probably schools tbh, there have been a lot of papers floated about using a camera and AI to tell if students are paying attention or cheating or whatever. There's already exammonitor & others using webcams so it's not a huge leap to make.
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so what did they do if you walked in, didn't scan your qr code, and walked out? how did they think they were going to separate the two groups well enough to prevent theft? like the whole concept screams "figure out how to steal in full view of the entire store". like one wig, a little costuming, and the cops are never going to find you from the video footage.
I spent a decent amount of time thinking of how best to shoplift from there, lol. My best idea is that with some decent slight of hand, you could easily fool the system into thinking you took 1 product instead of 2, or you returned an item when you actually didn't. And then you can challenge your receipt to make them fix it. There are a lot of camera angles, but they are only 14fps, and it can still be pretty tough to tell what someone is actually doing even if they are acting totally normally and non-maliciously.
Another funny theory I had is that to beat the tracking system, you could lie down or something. It's not something I ever tested in practice, but their tracking system relies heavily on the assumption that everyone is standing upright, so maybe if you rolled on the floor a little it would get confused. But when it gets confused it goes to one of those low paid workers in India or Costa Rica, so it might get corrected manually.
Horse costume for 2 people
yeah, the whole thing just screams "find an attack vector". did they actually red team it?
I mean, they test it a lot. It seems like the general philosophy though was that the ways of fooling the system reliably are somewhat convoluted, so if someone is willing to do all that, just let them lol.
Amusingly, one of the particular vulnerabilities that they mentioned having problems with in the UK in particular was people just brazenly going into a store, taking down some cameras or other equipment (networking equipment, edge compute, etc.) and Just Walking Out.
It does seem like an easy way to do this is just get your buddy to shine a laser pointer at the camera while you grab the stuff.
Any given shelf is generally visible by like 6-8 cameras.
Oh, I see. That's fucked. Over here stores have like...3 cameras total? Giver or take? Positioned in a way that multiple aisles are covered by a single camera. We don't really have a lot of fearmongering about shoplifting though.
It's not really about shoplifting, the cameras are a core component of the system, and if they could use fewer they would. Say what you will about the concept, but the cameras themselves aren't really the insidious part, in my opinion.
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The stores have gates that prevent entry until you scan the code. You could maybe hop the turnstyle, but there's usually at least one employee near the front to "help people get in". And to be fair, lots of people have questions about it so it's not entirely bs, but I guess their job is also to dissuade this.
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Fuck.... whats the indie movie where one of the main character's "gimme jobs" by his rich in-law was to sit in a cubicle with a helmet on skimming through the video feeds of always on and online digital recording devices and ID things in the rooms? Possessed? Possessor?
I think its the movie where the main character is an assassin who get jacked into the bodies of other people to carry out the hits... checks internet "Possessor" ... thats it!
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if your grocery store has to emboss 'fresh' above its door...
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