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Wait what? When did they reveal it's offloaded to workers in India? I remember this being touted as fully automated when it was announced, surely being watched by strangers from creepy angles would discourage a large portion of customers.

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ChatGPT is also trained by the efforts of thousands of people in low income countries getting paid a pittance. We don't hear about it much because it's easier to credit a few suits at the top as harbingers of the future.

Yep https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

There is usually a mention of "humans in the loop" when articles discussed Amazon Go[1]. Amazon just always refused to give actual numbers. The best "give" that humans were watching you was that Amazon Go receipts often arrived in your email many hours after you left.

Anyone who works in computer vision immediately knew this wasn't possible beyond a cool proof of concept in a tiny room with <300 SKUs. Even in 2024

[1] https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/21/inside-amazons-surveillanc...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrmMk1Myrxc says nothing about humans in the loop, and that it's technology, all automatic.

Am I surprised? No, not at all. But there is a definitely "how it was marketed", "how it was implemented" here.

Less creepy being watched by actual people I think. They'll usually just forget about you after a few days instead of cataloging every time you lingered at a shelf selling hemorrhoid cream and storing it in a database forever.

Sometimes people are lying.

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