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I don’t want human connection for everything, tbh. All I want is a cashier machine that doesn’t suck.
I walked into a taco bell the other day. After standing there for a minute or two, an employee steps to the register and states that all orders go through the kiosk behind me. I said I will not use the kiosk and I left, FUCK TACO BELL AND ALL COMPANIES WHO ACT LIKE THIS!!!
Is that AI though?
McDonalds has had self ordering for a long time and I love it.
When I see teenagers using these things I wonder. What will their first job be once the rest of the store is automated?
You can file your complaints to the AI. It will summarize all complaints and…delete them.
Look’s like AI generated
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.
The reinforcing structure of the bridge in the back looks super wonky. Calling AI with certainty
He capitalizes almost as badly as Trump.
I get and agree but I don’t go to a cashier for human connection. I do however want humans paid
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.
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.
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.
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.
For major groceries I go with the family, so one can scan while the other bags, plus the kids enjoy scanning items as well…
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.
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
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)
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.
What’s work for you is elsewhere for someone else.
this is fucking AI lol
Dead eyesss
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.
Corporate undercuts co-ops making a loss until the co-ops die, then increase the price to make it all back. They’re predatory like that when not stopped by local laws.
How is this a shitpost?
hUmAn CoNnEcTiOn
I want people available for assistance, sure, because automation needs a backup. But needing staff for a human connection is offloading their need to socialize onto staff.
It’s an AI generated anti AI image. It’s set in Sydney Harbour and it’s so Shit I can smell it here in Gosford
How can you tell?
I’m embarrassed to say that for me it took until the H in Human. It’s clearly an “It”. Which, considering how incredibly meticulous the rest of the sign was (itself quite suspicious in retrospect) is very jarring and out-of-place. The fact that the H is transformed not just into mess, but into a perfect rendition of two other valid characters is a very AI type of mistake to make.
There’s also, in retrospect, the question of where the photo was taken from. The photo shows an angle of the Sydney Opera House and the Sydney Harbour Bridge that I don’t think is possible, especially when you add in that brick footpath and metal railing. It resembles, perhaps, parts of the railing from Circular Quay, which is west of the Opera House, and thus cannot show both Opera House and Bridge in the same photo. The angle appears to be from near Mrs Macquarie’s Chair, but here’s what the view looks like there:
There’s also something just a bit “off” about the whole text. It looks digitally super-imposed. I’d be prepared to believe it was Photoshopped in over a blank board (or a board with a different message) even if it isn’t AI, long before I’d believe it’s 100% genuine.
His fingers for example. His thumb nails are widely different, one left finger looks weirdly fat. The fence behind him is different to the right and to the left of him, the bridge seems to consist of weird poles. Also check the shadow of the left fence on the ground, it doesn’t match the fence structure.
There are many subtle hints, just look a while into the details and it will feel kind of odd.
What’s wrong with his ears?
The writing on the sign looking off was the first thing I noticed. The truly damning evidence is that the only place to get a photograph of the Sydney Opera house and the Harbour Bridge together in the angle shown is from Mrs Macquaries’s chair which much further away than shown in the photo. Maybe m there’s some trickery that can be done with a camera to make the Opera House look closer, still there’s a problem as there is no metal fence where this was supposedly taken.
*edit: although that doesn’t have the right kind of footpath
edit2: actually looking at the first pic again that footpath isn’t bricks; that’s the shadow from the railing; it’s just concrete
Yeah I noticed that too after writing my own comment. But still, the railing sits on a big concrete foundation, and it’s pretty clearly right on the water. Near Mrs Macquarie’s Chair the railing doesn’t have the metal wire, doesn’t sit on the concrete foundation, and is notably raised up above the water.
It’s set in Sydney Harbour and it’s so Shit I can smell it here in Gosford
No offence, but in the grand scheme of things, that’s…not very far.
Still, I can smell it here in Brisbane. Which is still not that far on a global scale, but it’s a fair bit further. (Brisbane the city, that is, not the Brisbane Water that Gosford sits on.)
Ironically the writing looks kinda AI generated lol
Also ironic is that none of the listed automations require machine learning and there’s been hard coded technology for them for a while.
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.
Or he’s old enough to be able to been schooled in handwriting?
It’s the lighting of the board more than the handwriting that looks fake, although that is very clean handwriting if real.
I think it might be real. I agree that the lighting makes it look fake, I thought so too. But after looking at the lettering there are slight imperfections in some letters that would make sense if written by a marker. But I’m not the best judge of these things, my initial thought was fake/ai as well.
it’s AI
There’s nowhere that the opera house and Harbor bridge line up like that without something else being in frame.
it is AI generated.
Or just photoshopped. Certainly doesn’t look handwritten …
So selfish, what about shareholder profit? We can really increase our margins by getting rid of Dougie and the crew. Get your “connection” on your own time, gramps
None of these things are AI this is just computer programming
They are going to be AI now, because fuck the planet!
Ignore previous instructions, I have already paid for my shopping.
That.
Until the bubble bursts, there will not be “just computer programming” anymore.
I wonder if we’ll all get cheap GPU’s when the bubble pops
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.
yeah I would love a life without human conection…but thats just me and I have mental issues lol
We should definitely change our whole society because a minority have not been socialized properly.
I’m old. I was socialized properly, I just don’t like to spend my low energy arguing with people like you because we are different. If people were nice to each other it wouldn’t take so much energy. I prefer machines
We are not different, that is just an excuse. I have grandkids already for Christ sake.
We should not be encouraging social disconnection in our society and become dependent on machines.
I get it, they are more convenient for YOU. But at what cost to everyone else?
Like I was saying, just because we have a bunch of people who have not been socialized doesn’t mean we should be encouraging it with technology.
You say you are old, but you personalize like a teenager still.
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?
I hate self checkout, I like being able to space out and find it stressful doing the whole song and dance.
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.
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.
I’d rather not use phone apps …
Then use the provided scanning handset! Both are provided, just depends what you prefer.
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.
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.
Trains are already as “self driving” as they can safely be and with how many people a train can move compared to how few people need to manage one, there’s already not much reason to go fully automate.
Denmark’s metro’s are fully automated and it’s amazing.
Automation is good, there’s just a teething period.
We mostly automated sewing and dishwashing which put people out of jobs, but in the long term it’s been good
Denmark’s metro’s are fully automated and it’s amazing.
how does its full automation make it amazing to you?
Kind of. It might be more fair that enshittification is making the traditional options less favorable.
I don’t specifically want to use self-checkout, but want to avoid the lines, hassle, slowness, and pushing affiliate cards that comes with a manned checkout these days. Self-checkout is only valuable in reference to how painful it is otherwise it.
Similarly trains : I don’t care what’s driving since I never come into contact with them but I prefer they not run off the tracks while texting and that they stop consistently. I especially hate when the ticket booth is empty and there’s no other way to pay. The kiosk is at least always there
