stosb

wearer of programming socks

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mid 20s | bisexual | programmer | european


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bruno
@bruno

building this type of mechanical turk really should be regarded as a form of fraud


accidentalcoincidence
@accidentalcoincidence

i think a lot of people may not be aware that amazon is doing this on a massive scale and actually selling it as a service, see https://www.mturk.com/

("this" meaning "getting lots of people mainly in third world countries to do arbitrary computer tasks for extremely low pay")


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in reply to @stu's post:

I was thinking about this and I think part of the reason is that self-checkout already exists in stores, so it wouldn't have gotten them press coverage about how "weird" it is to shop there if you had to stop and tap your bag/items on an NFC tag reader, but I bet another part is that people steal from self-checkout all the time. If you know how the system works, you can figure out how to get around it, but a "magic" system that just knows what you're carrying out of the store and you don't know how, then you can't figure out how to trick it.

i'd never been to one of these places so i always just assumed it was like, scanning things as you go along and getting it charged to your card when you leave or something. the reality of it being some guys in india watching you on cctv and tallying it up by hand is such a uniquely dystopian and stone age solution to the tech magic sales pitch we got you can't help but laugh at just how absurdly bleak it is

yeah i also assumed it was something like "self-scanning as you go", which according to the article is apparently the backup plan for stores who want to use something like this in the future. Insane that this wasn't the idea from the get-go.

"Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped."

Oh my god just end me

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