71 LOL Amazon's soon to be defunct "cashier-less" grocery stores "relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts" (archive.is) posted 237 days ago by lgbtqwtfbbq 237 days ago by lgbtqwtfbbq +71 / -0 67 comments share 67 comments share save hide report block hide replies
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.