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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by diggan on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @02:11PM (#39908970)
It does sound like a person was watching the shopper live:

> Though it seemed completely automated, Just Walk Out relied on more than 1,000 people in India watching and labeling videos to ensure accurate checkouts. The cashiers were simply moved off-site, and they watched you as you shopped.

But who knows, tech articles are so inaccurate that it might as well have been some misunderstanding regarding how the labeling/training was done.

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Re:Amazon Ditches 'Just Walk Out' Checkouts at Its Grocery S... by ribosometronome on Tuesday April 02, 2024 @02:22PM (#39909106)
Yeah, that's line was what got me trying to look at the article they cite, which is unfortunately paywalled. It'd be one thing to do that at like... several stores to generate the training data. But scaling it to dozens while it still requires that? Baffling.
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