• BakerBagel@midwest.social
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    8 months ago

    Except they still had thousands if employees in India watching the surveillance tapes to see what people bought and charged them for it

    Amazon can claim this was a stop gap all they want, but the truth is that the technology behind the core concept isn’t there and they just pretended it worked so the project head wouldn’t have to explain why they are behind schedule and over budget. It’s the same as with their drone delivery service 10 years ago. All smoke and mirrors to make moron tech bros cream themselves

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        8 months ago

        They gave up collecting that data though, that’s why they are shutting down the department. All they managed to do was outsource grocery store cashiers to India, which seems like an exceptional shitty thing to me