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Amazon's Just Walk Out technology relies on hundreds of workers in India watching you shop
(www.businessinsider.com)
this post was submitted on 05 Apr 2024
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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.
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