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Innocent People Are Being Accused of Shoplifting by Faulty AI-Facial Recognition Systems at an Alarming Rate: "It's the stuff of Kafkaesque nightmares." (futurism.com)
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[–] 6 points 1 day ago* (1 child)

I do know retail theft has skyrocketed the last 5 or so years.

Yeah the stores did that.

They knew self-checkout would be shoplifter heaven but they calculated that they saved more by cutting jobs. Then they cry for insurance and government payouts by pretending there is an epidemic of crime.

And now they're cutting back on the self-checkouts while not bothering to hire people back to work the registers lol. The lines are getting longer and longer.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 day ago

    And now they're cutting back on the self-checkouts while not bothering to hire people back to work the registers lol. The lines are getting longer and longer.

    Of course, how else to drive you to use their pickup/delivery service for a premium, or to order online where they can really gouge you individually with surveillance pricing.

    They were never going to do surveillance pricing in store, that’s too hard, but why have useable stores at all? Throw everything in locked cases, staff minimally, ignore complaints, profit (this quarter).

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