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Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop (www.businessinsider.com)
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[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 26 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Except they still had thousands if employees in India watching the surveillance tapes to see what people bought and charged them for it

Amazon can claim this was a stop gap all they want, but the truth is that the technology behind the core concept isn't there and they just pretended it worked so the project head wouldn't have to explain why they are behind schedule and over budget. It's the same as with their drone delivery service 10 years ago. All smoke and mirrors to make moron tech bros cream themselves

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You need training data though I don't understand what the problem is. Hell it doesn't even matter if they never actually make the technology work that'll be their problem. They can't lie and tell people it works if it doesn't but as far as I'm aware they're not actually doing that.

I don't like amazing very much but they do enough crappy things for you to actually get upset about so it just seems odd that you would pick this hill to die on.

[–] BakerBagel@midwest.social 9 points 7 months ago

They gave up collecting that data though, that's why they are shutting down the department. All they managed to do was outsource grocery store cashiers to India, which seems like an exceptional shitty thing to me