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

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          That is actually one of the more believable things about the image. It’s totally possible to take a photo of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge behind it like that, but the giveaway is that the place on land where you can get that angle is further away and doesn’t look like it does in this picture. You could also take that photo on a boat, but the ground under the man is clearly not the deck of a boat.

          Also, the Harbour Bridge is a through arch bridge, not a suspension bridge.

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      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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      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.

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

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    This picture being generated aside, do people just call all automation “AI” now because they can’t tell the difference?

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      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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        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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    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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      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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      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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      Humans can be paid without slowing down my grocery shopping. Just pay them to stay home and let me efficiently pay for my food and go.

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        If you’re only ever getting a few items I can see how self-checkout is faster, but for full grocery trips cashiers are undeniably way faster, primarily because I can bag while the clerk scans.

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          For major groceries I go with the family, so one can scan while the other bags, plus the kids enjoy scanning items as well…

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        Self checkout fucks up every second time. Then I have to wait for the server fixing the other 6 fucked machines to do mine. The terminals always seem to be slow with whatever the unfuck commands are.

        On average it dosnt seem faster.

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          I guess it depends on the store. I can’t remember last time I needed assistance. I use them at Edeka, rewe, Rossmann and ikea.

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      I don’t go to the supermarket for human connection, I go to get a product. But when getting said product I 100% prefer the human connection of a cashier than a machine, I don’t even care if it’s slightly slower.

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        I am so awkward and clumsy at self checkout that I absolutely need the human interaction with a cashier, and I am faster that way. By far. The thought of not having cashiers is giving me anxiety

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    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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    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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      That would be true if by utilizing the staffing cuts, they increased wages or lowered costs but instead they just pocket the profits.

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      That’s the same as any work cell job. Stamping press: load heavy part, hit your two buttons, take part out and stack it, repeat 8 hours.

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      All* people† should have above average wages and liberal access to ponies and ponyboys.

      *everyone I like
      †people I don’t like are only considered people to bring down the average‡
      ‡look the queue is too long at my favorite salsa bar and my wait time must be brought down by any and all means available§
      §i swear to gods° I’ll fake a heart attack for more salsa diabla try me
      °Gowron’s left eye, Gowron’s right eye, and Sideshow Bob’s rake

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    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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      Its a trap though. If they had employees at all the lanes there wouldn’t be a lineup either. Our store has about 16 lanes and maybe 10 self checkout, the lanes are all closed except 2, so you ate forced to wait or self checkout. They are training you yo do your own labour for free.

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        Grab a scanner, scan while picking up items, pay and leave store.

        It’s barely any extra “labor” and no need for useless jobs.

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          You are doing the useless job for free though. At our store items don’t scan so you have to wait while one person tries to help 10 people so it ends up taking longer that going through a checkout.

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            According to you logic, I shouldn’t even go to the store.

            Why am I doing free labor when someone can pick it up and deliver it for me?

            *This comment was typed delivered by a payed laborer

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              Yeah, if a company can deliver it for cheaper than your travel time and gas money, then yes delivery makes sense. Somebody gets to keep a job and you have better quality of life to spend it doing what you like.

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            Stuff would he cheaper if we get rid of cashiers. So I would actually be earning money.

            Maybe stores should introduce a self scan discount.

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              It won’t be, the store will just make more profit. Our dollar stores have gone full self checkout and prices have gone up.

              But self scan discount makes sense

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              Maybe, but there’s no guarantee. The price could also stay the same and the difference could go to shareholders instead

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              Our stores have done both full self check out, plus higher prices, so it is lose-lose here

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        Dumb machines that do what you want, like ticket machines, or self-checkout are fine by me, but if they start trying to get chummy with me, I’m out. Like the doors in The Hitch-hiker’s Guide To The Galaxy.

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          Yes, I can’t stand the obsequiousness of most LLMs. “That’s a great question!” No need to string words together to pretend to be riding my dick, clanker, just answer the damn question!

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        best addition of ML (i wouldn’t call it AI because that’s both tainted and not what it is) has been self checkout when you put fresh fruit/veg on the scales and tap the button, the selection window has a list of ~3 probable items based on computer vision… it doesn’t automatically choose for me, there are a few likely options, i can still select based on alphabetical if it’s not there, and it’s a tab at the start of the alphabet on the screen so i can go back to it… it’s just helpful, and doesn’t remove anything

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    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.