Comment on Amazon made a new version of its cashierless tech that doesn’t need cameras
ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 year ago
I’m a bit baffled that #Amazon would give up the opportunity to scan faces. If you have a married couple with joint card account, Amazon wouldn’t know which one of them made the purchase without cameras.
Doesn’t this also mean they need a human to monitor for people who don’t scan their payment card?
Noumena@kbin.social 1 year ago
I wonder if they just check the phone data. I assume most amazon customers have the app setup with location sharing. Not all, but most.
ciferecaNinjo@fedia.io 1 year ago
If we consider the sick amount of data harvesting Amazon does with cameras-- the fact that they even monitor the mood of Amazon drivers using cameras, it’s just hard to get my head around them giving that up with customers. You would expect cameras to have full coverage for theft and to monitor the mood of the shoppers. IIRC, Walmart had an initiative to monitor the moods of consumers as they looked at various products, signs, promos, etc.
Noumena@kbin.social 1 year ago
Yea, i think your video surveillance case has a lot of value. With AI Algorithms these days and the postive feedback loop being clearly a purchase, it would be weird not to have this.