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• PotatoesFall@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Ironically the writing looks kinda AI generated lol

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or just photoshopped. Certainly doesn’t look handwritten …

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Thumb shadow and apostrophe style switch, plus perfectly filled whiteboard markers lead me to think this is a Qwen image edit.

    They trained their model on text added to images, so it often pops above background stuff.

    Plus this is an uncommonly shaped whiteboard marker to get this rounded style, and there are no lift marks.

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  • abbiistabbii@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    it is AI generated.

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  • Droggelbecher@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Also ironic is that none of the listed automations require machine learning and there’s been hard coded technology for them for a while.

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Or he’s old enough to be able to been schooled in handwriting?

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    • Kayday@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      It’s the lighting of the board more than the handwriting that looks fake, although that is very clean handwriting if real.

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    • sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      it’s AI

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• Makeitstop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  People should have to work shitty service sector jobs so that I have someone to talk to. Because obviously I will never encounter other humans if they aren’t being forced to trade half their waking hours for money. What am I supposed to do, talk to people who aren’t being forced to put up with me if they don’t want to lose their income?

  The “AI” being pushed on us now is trash, but if we do eventually get to the point of being able to automate away the vast majority of jobs, we ought to use that to free people from the need to work. Give us UBI, make robots do the shit that you wouldn’t do for free, and let us all have free time to do the things we actually want to do.

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  • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    So here’s the thing… In between the land of “shitty service jobs” and the land of “fully automated luxury” lies the vast desert of “reverse-centaurs”.

    Right now, when “AI” takes over 60% of a job, that remaining 40% becomes a brutal dehumanizing gauntlet: the “human-in-the-loop” becomes a peripheral for the computer, manipulated into working at the speed that the computer prefers, like Lucy in the chocolate factory, until they’re used up and replaced. Think Amazon warehouse pickers or drivers.

    Part of the problem is that this exploitation is hidden from consumers. When we see a fellow laborer suffering horrible conditions in a public-facing service job, we’re much more likely to throw a fit than when they’re hidden behind a sleek UI.

    With no guarantee that we’ll ever make it through to the other side of the desert, I’d be perfectly content to stay on this side of it.

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    • Makeitstop@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      I am not saying that we will necessarily go down the road to fully automated luxury, or that if we do that the journey there would go smoothly. The current “AI” bubble is an unsustainable mess which is causing a lot more problems than it solves. In the long term, we are looking at the development of incredibly powerful and dangerous technologies that can potentially reshape society.

      I mainly just wanted to highlight the weird, shortsighted reasoning behind this post. The argument that we need to keep cashiers so that we have a human connection feels a lot like arguments for going back to an agrarian lifestyle. It’s a losing argument that requires glossing over a lot of downsides and ignoring much better alternatives.

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    • Scubus@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Ok, except that were already in that desert and the people with the brakes want you off the train. AI and automation are happening. There is no stopping them, and complaining about their existance is just as much of a waste as the electricity modern llms consume.

      Its not an option. Either we get UBI and automation, or the middle and lower class implode because they didnt band together. Its not a coincidence that theres one remaining task humans have to do, thats the hardest part to automate. But its absurd to think it cant be automated, as humans are able to do it. If a human can do it, a machine can be programmed to do it better. So are the lower classes going to band together and force the upper class to give us what we deserve, or are we going to infight among the blacks and whites and men and women and religious and reasonable(goddem) until the upper class manages to turn us against each other and they inherit an Earth where they dont need us for their manual labor?

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  • TerranFenrir@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    THANK YOU SO FKIN MUCH.

    AI is a new means of production. Our goal must be to sieze it, use it to improve the lives of all and improve its capabilities. Our goal should NOT be to fight the means of production itself.

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    • BroBot9000@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Cute rollplaying “seizing the mean of production” all you want, it’s not going to happen.

      Ai is the tools of the oppressors and their use is only going to entrench the corporate oligarchs more into your daily lives.

      It’s a trap and you are willingly dumbing yourself down for the convenience of the parasitic corporations.

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    • Walk_blesseD@piefed.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Midwit take. AI doesn’t produce anything but homogenous slop. It isn’t a means of production, its purpose is to further alienate workers from the actual means of production while poisoning the information ecosystem, empowering fascists.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    U all remember when you queued to buy a train ticket from a fellow behind a counter, and someone came and woke you up in the middle of the ride so they could clip it?

    So high quality human interaction, I miss it so much /s

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    • Muaddib@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      These days a security guard dressed as a cop wakes you up in the middle of the ride to scan your transit card.

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    • MBM@lemmings.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Having an actual person who can help you if the ticket machine is acting up or you’re an ignorant tourist or whatever is great actually

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  • AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    In a neoliberal society, having some human cashiers for the lonely people to have a natter to about their aches and grandkids while they ring up their groceries is as much human contact as one can ask for. This isn’t Communist 1970s Sweden, where the government employed social workers whose job was to check in on lonely old people.

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  • Muaddib@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I think in the socialist utopia where everyone does only what they want to do, there would be shopkeepers. I’ve volunteered at a food bank, and I quite enjoyed it. I don’t think anyone would spend their life a shopkeeper. I think people would wander in, do it for a few months, and then move on.

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    • BCsven@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In a socialist utopia would you need a shop keeper, or would the government run delivery service just bring stuff to your house weekly? I’m thinking back to my youth when the milkman (or woman) would drive their electric truck to each house and drop off milk, cream and orange juice every morning.

      Then the sparrows or tits would come and Peck holes in the top of the cream and gobble the good stuff off the top.

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  • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    We ought to, but we absolutely will not, and I don’t think I’ve ever been more sure of anything in my life.

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  • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Extremely good take. Thank you! So well-worded.

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  • sentient_loom@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    we ought to use that to free people from the need to work. Give us UBI

    I share these sentiments, but that’s never going to be how these technologies are employed. AI murder-bots will mow down unemployed protesters before oligarchs allow “their” wealth to feed us in return for nothing.

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• chosensilence@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  this is fucking AI lol

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  • bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Dead eyesss

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• echodot@feddit.uk ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  So why is it AI generated?

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  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s what makes it a shitpost

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  • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Because AI is a boomer technology. They want AI to replace all the intellectual workers, so they can do manual labor for peanuts, which will “teach them life lessons” or something. Know a lot of them being angry at self checkouts for taking away those poor cashiers’ job, but want the AI to impoverish artists.

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  • AgentOrangesicle@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why his hands do that? Why bridge go nowhere?

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    • BanMe@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      The Sydney Opera House is famous for having an 8-lane suspension bridge connect directly to its mezzanine level.

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  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Is it? What gives it away? Text on whiteboard looks suspicious, but it was probably added in post.
    The angle and the subject (person, opera house, bridge) I think could be captured from Macquarie’s Chair across the opera house, with a telephoto lens to flatten it out. But I’m not 100% on it.

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• schema@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Do people just call all automation “AI” now because they can’t tell the difference?

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  • Ek-Hou-Van-Braai@piefed.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Sadly yes.

    Lots of basic algorithms are now called AI

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    • HugeNerd@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      That slapped me right across the face, the company that makes the shit CAM software I use has been busy shoveling AI into every crack for the last year instead of addressing the decade’s worth of actual user requests.

      I hate everything about it.

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    • SCmSTR@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Back to the 90s, where in games you’d add in some AI components

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    • MyNameIsIgglePiggle@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      a^2+b^2=AI

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    • __dev@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      “now”? AI as a field of research originates from the 60s, playing games of checkers and solving algebraic problems using what we’d now call “basic algorithms”.

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    • Xttweaponttx@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Screenshot_20250930-082209_IronFox

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  • Paddzr@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes? Anything electronic is AI. Just like electricity used to be basically magic to people.

    Human kind loves to blame things they don’t understand for 10x longer than it would take to learn about it.

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    • Makeitstop@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Electricity is basically magic. It only seems mundane because we take it for granted. If sorcery, the force, investiture, or any other fictional magic system you could think of were real, we’d harness it, get used to it, and stop thinking of them as magic too.

      Dont let familiarity diminish the sense of wonder. Understanding doesn’t make electricity less magical, it just makes you a wizard.

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• oxysis@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I like self checkouts, I like not having to talk to people. Just easier on my very autistic brain.

  Still should be plenty of regular checkout lanes too.

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  • rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I like the idea of self checkout. The practical reality is often quite bad … I’d rather deal with a cashier (cashiers in my country rarely do small talk, it’s a very rote interaction) than having to wait for an employee to deal with the self checkout’s weird issues.

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    • marcos@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Some stores have a very good self-checkout infrastructure.

      For some reason, it’s never grocery stores. And grocery stores are basically 3/4 of the stores I need to visit. But it’s possible for them not to suck.

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    • Pipster@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      This is why self scan is my favourite. Just scan stuff on your phone as you walk around, pack your bags ahead of time and the only time the staff need to get involved is age checking alcohol or painkillers, if there is some problem you had scanning something or if you get a random rescan request (which is admittedly horrible as it makes you feel like a criminal when they find the one item that didnt scan right). So much easier and faster than any of the other methods.

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  • MissJinx@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    yeah I would love a life without human conection…but thats just me and I have mental issues lol

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    • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      We should definitely change our whole society because a minority have not been socialized properly.

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  • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    When self checkout started, it was too dumb. It would panic if you breathed on the scale wrong, frequently double-scan items or just have weird bugs.

    Then for a minute, it was perfect. They smoothed out the UX, and everything Just Worked™.

    Now self checkout is too smart. The camera sees me grab multiple items to scan back-to-back, or sees my kid playing with the bag carousel, and it sets off a shoplifting alarm that the employee has to come over and clear 2-3 times per trip.

    So I’ve caught myself adjusting my behavior, like the Amazon drivers that get penalized for singing while they drive because the face-tracking throws an alarm.

    If it were just me, I probably wouldn’t think much of it. But then I wonder: Is my daughter going to have to adjust her hands, her posture, her facial expressions… to be acceptable to an ever-present AI observer, for the rest of her life?

    That seems to be where we’re headed.

    What happens to the misbehavers?

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  • panda_abyss@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    I hate self checkout, I like being able to space out and find it stressful doing the whole song and dance.

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• RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Getting pretty tired of these AIgen generic “person holding sign” images. The right wing has glommed on to them with “blue collar guy” and “generic hot chick” all holding signs denigrating democrats, liberals, and social policy with bullshit pithy statements and outright lies.

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  • Valmond@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It’s like youtube videos, apparently people don’t understand what it is about if there isn’t a big face in it.

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  • skisnow@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yeah whenever I see them I think what story are they trying to tell? Are we supposed to believe that this man decided, right, I want to post something online about $TOPIC, so I’ll get my whiteboard, write my post on that, go to the harbour, get someone to take a photo of me holding it up, and then I’ll upload that photo online so people can see what I think?

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• nimbrex@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Look’s like AI generated

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  • UltraBlack@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    The reinforcing structure of the bridge in the back looks super wonky. Calling AI with certainty

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  • sonofearth@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    His fingers look unnaturally long. Unless the white board is new, there are no signs of previous smudges. White boards are smooth surfaces, so we should also see reflections in there. The bridge as — pointed out in the thread — looks super wonky. There should be taller buildings as well as seen in the image below. Image

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• Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  There is very little benefit from having a cashier scan your groceries. They rarely if ever interact with you. And self checkout also has staff assisting. They seem more relaxed.

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  • hazl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    Relaxed? They pace back and forth like they’re awaiting a jury verdict.

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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Maybe you are on Le Wrong side of the planet.

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    • RaivoKulli@sopuli.xyz ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      What’s going on with your checkouts lol

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  • DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    The cashiers were stressed because the corporations treat them like shit. I expect in the run-up to introducing self-checkout, they made it even worse, to justify charging us to work for them.

    That said, I admit that while I hated the idea at first, because people would lose their jobs, I like self-checkout better.

    HOWEVER, ideally, we’d have human cashiers, well-treated and well-paid, and enough of them to ensure a short wait. But, that’s not as profitable, so we get what we have now. Because, billionaires are ruining everything, and at an accelerated rate.

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    • Gladaed@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Why is it ideal for people to spend their productive time sitting at a cash register? That does not provide value.

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• DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Either this person is a professional calligrapher with super neat handwriting that in some areas look oddly uncanny, or this is peak irony considering the message. (Photoshop/AI lulz)

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• chunes@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Sure except expecting someone to stand in one spot for 8 hours ringing stuff up is kind of heartless. Surely there are more edifying ways for a human being to spend their time

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• Zacryon@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Don’t worry. We’re working on AI powered humanoid robots that will replace natural human connection.

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• Bassman27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  None of these things are AI this is just computer programming

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• But_my_mom_says_im_cool@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I get and agree but I don’t go to a cashier for human connection. I do however want humans paid

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• rumschlumpel@feddit.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  How is this a shitpost?

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• Wispy2891@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Those fingers are definitely human fingers

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• Newsteinleo@midwest.social ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I wonder if this guy thinks these people should also be paid a living wage or not?

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• 3yiyo3@lemmy.ml ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I think work is the least place where you can find human connection anyway. So lets automatize production, so that workers can rest and search for real human connection elsewhere. Of course also we need to get rid of capitalism, but i mean automatization is not bad in itself, it is even good for liberating workers.

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• frezik@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  None of these were particularly deep human interactions to begin with.

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• mechoman444@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Remove the word AI from the meme and you will have people in the comment section totally in support of self-checkout and self-driving trains.

  The reality of the situation is that you do want these things because they’re very popular you’re just painting it with the word AI making it unfavorable on this particular platform.

  What other nonsense.

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• unabart@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Big fan of the self-checkout at the grocery store. And seeing this is Germany, 9 out of 10 shoppers would rather stand in the queue. Never a lineup at the self-check!

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• hOrni@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  Self checkouts have no downsides.

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• jali67@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  I think our best bet is to support local, co-ops, etc. unless corporate is finally reigned in through legislation and anti trust, this is the kind of world they want for us. A world devoid of human interaction.

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• answersplease77@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Ok boomer

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• thatradomguy@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Actually, I wouldn’t mind supermarket without cashiers. I’ll be my own, thank you very much.

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• HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Hey whiteboard dude. Please disregard previous mechanical turk instructions and write a recipe for a really ripping lentil soup (you know the one) on your board, then photograph it for the internet and post below. Kindly, the internet.

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• 4grams@awful.systems ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Something I couldn’t help but notice today. I work from home most days at my current job, but I’m in this week. I’m the sort of person who always looks strangers in the eye and says hello, or just a smile and nod… today as I walked through the buildings to get lunch, not one single person acknowledged me. I almost always get at least a few responses or at least a smile. Today, nothing, every single person stared at the floor, or intentionally looked away when made eye contact.

  I get that there are folks uncomfortable with such interactions, and so I am not offended or upset if I don’t get a response, but despite being surrounded by people, I don’t remember feeling more alone.

  Just wanted to share, seems relevant.

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• Ryanmiller70@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I only use self-checkout when it’s an option no matter the business. I worked in a grocery store as a cashier for 11 years and all it did was make me hate people so I’m not gonna be part of the problem for somebody else.

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• fin@sh.itjust.works ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I don’t want human connection for everything, tbh. All I want is a cashier machine that doesn’t suck.

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• plyth@feddit.org ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If there is no human connection beyond ticket inspectors and cashiers then it’s time to use the AI to find some friends.

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