I find this even funnier as Amazon is the owners of AWS, which practically runs any 'scalable' service (yes we know microshit has azure whatever), including video analysis and facial recognition services... They literally had all the things in house with maybe a license and a team or two, but it was easier to outsource... the fuck lol.
A human might be better at figuring out whether someone is trying to steal (and thus needs to be banned) or they are a good customer who forgets stuff (and thus needs to be reminded by staff).
As is so often the case, automation just means moving all the work somewhere else to pretend we removed it.
"Self driving cars" that need every route and obstacle manually entered and updated.
Turns out a team of 1000 indians were hired to drive each car remotely.
Recycling.
I find this even funnier as Amazon is the owners of AWS, which practically runs any 'scalable' service (yes we know microshit has azure whatever), including video analysis and facial recognition services... They literally had all the things in house with maybe a license and a team or two, but it was easier to outsource... the fuck lol.
"YOU CAN'T DEFEAT US. WE HAVE THE COMPUTE."
the compute: "kindly do the needful"
People might be cheaper and more accurate.
They probably aren't more accurate, but bring about less false positives and can much quicker make a ruling on an incident.
A human might be better at figuring out whether someone is trying to steal (and thus needs to be banned) or they are a good customer who forgets stuff (and thus needs to be reminded by staff).