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They eliminated cashiers and keep the profits. NY Democrats are fighting back. (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 weeks ago by to c/workreform@lemmy.world
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[–] 23 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

The discount comes from entering the code of the cheapest type of item no matter what item I picked up. Organic lady finger bananas? Looks like bulk Cavendish to me. I'm not being paid enough to know the difference when I'm using self checkout, a banana is a banana.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    this is why the store near me changed the self check programing and added AI

    No more codes, point to the picture

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  • [–] 9 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Great! Now AI is going to hallucinate products and if you don't pay attention, you'll be overcharged. Since it's "self-checkout", I bet they'll claim it's totally your responsibility to make sure you're not ripped.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 child)

    Self checkouts don't use agentic AIs / LLMs that hallucinate permanently. As mich as I hate AI, that's one of the cases where the distinct types matter.

    Image recognition software has been around for ages and was used for similar things way before the AI hype. The models used for selfcheckouts are highly specialised and have an error rate very close to 0%. That doesnt mean they can't make any errors, but the same goes for human cashiers.

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