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Big Tech Is Faking AI (www.youtube.com)
submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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A new report has shown that Amazon's "Just Walk Out" AI checkout process is actually processed by 1,000 staff in India.Tech companies are under pressure to d...

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Haha. I called that one. Building an AI is expensive. Faking an AI is cheap. During the current enshitification cycle, I think we're going to see more of the second kind, than the first.

We saw the same crap with Bitcoin. "It uses blockchain...in a meaningless obscure corner of the app, just so we can tell you...it uses blockchain!"