#JUST WALK OUT

[extantformoflife]

[b-u-n-n-i]

Mirna with ConnectingHumanity (also known as ConnectingGaza or gazaesims) has asked for a big push for more esim donations.

You can donate independently but if the process seems overwhelming or you don't have time or resources to monitor and top up the data when it runs out, I do suggest donating to a group like Crips For eSims For Gaza so the team of volunteers can draw from the donation pool to top up and send eSims consistently and regularly.

Edit: Simly Palestine plans got cheaper lately but they also changed what networks they work with and Mirna has said people are reporting they don't work as well in Gaza anymore, so hold off on Simly Palestine. Simly Middle East still seems to work though.

Edit 8/22: see tinyplanet's reblog

[therobotmonster]

There's a nuance to the Amazon AI checkout story that gets missed.

Because AI-assisted checkouts on its own isn't a bad thing:

This was a big story in 2022, about a bread-checkout system in Japan that turned out to be applicable in checking for cancer cells in sample slides.

But that bonus anti-cancer discovery isn't the subject here, the actual bread-checkout system is. That checkout system worked, because it wasn't designed with the intent of making the checkout cashier obsolete, rather, it was there to solve a real problem: it's hard to tell pastry apart at a glance, and the customers didn't like their bread with a plastic-wrapping and they didn't like the cashiers handling the bread to count loaves.

So they trained the system intentionally, under controlled circumstances, before testing and launching the tech. The robot does what it's good at, and it doesn't need to be omniscient because it's a tool, not a replacement worker.

Amazon, however, wanted to offload its training not just on an underpaid overseas staff, but on the customers themselves. And they wanted it out NOW so they could brag to shareholders about this new tech before the tech even worked. And they wanted it to replace a person, but not just the cashier. There were dreams of a world where you can't shoplift because you'd get billed anyway dancing in the investor's heads.

Only, it's one thing to make a robot that helps cooperative humans count bread, and it's another to try and make one that can thwart the ingenuity of hungry people.

The foreign workers performing the checkouts are actually supposed to be training the models. A lot of reports gloss over this in an effort to present the efforts as an outsourcing Mechanical Turk but that's really a side-effect. These models all work on datasets, and the only place you get a dataset of "this visual/sensor input=this purchase" is if someone is cataloging a dataset correlating the two...

Which Amazon could have done by simply putting the sensor system in place and correlating the purchase data from the cashiers with the sensor tracking of the customer. Just do that for as long as you need to build the dataset and test it by having it predict and compare in the background until you reach your preferred ratio. If it fails, you have a ton of market research data as a consolation prize.

But that could take months or years and you don't get to pump your stock until it works, and you don't get to outsource your cashiers while pretending you've made Westworld work.

This way, even though Amazon takes a little bit of a PR bloody nose, they still have the benefit of any stock increase this already produced, the shareholders got their dividends.

Which I suppose is a lot of words to say:

[orchisailsa]

It came to me in a dream.

[mosthomoeroticenemies]

(art by my darling friend @mango-knife in like middle school lmao [has been on my wall ever since])

[poke-chann-draws]

I couldn’t get this out of my head

[westiec]

made a thing

Happy Agender Pride Day! — if you do not vibe with your gender you actually do not have to pick a new one

[ID: Just Walk Out meme edited with a bold all-caps GENDERS overlaid atop the list of things you can walk out of and the skeleton holding an agender pride flag.]

[quinnleyaeroraen]

Playing the eternal cylinder be like

The trebhum ocs referenced

[discountreactionimagewarehouse]

JUST WALK OUT.

[ssiegfriedsystem]

i made this a while ago

[power-chords]

IF IT SUCKS… HIT DA BRICKS!!

[author-does-art]

You Can Leave!

//Snap Team's The Third Tower Part Two was uh... it sure was something! :'D //Some say Esc is still running to this day...

[rraaaarrl]

Doctor Doom says...

"Just Walk Out"

[aierie--dragonslayer]

THERE IT IS!

[masamunemaniac]

What would happen if she walked without stopping?

(Original art: https://www.tumblr.com/clefdesoll/655120658928451584/heres-my-animation-for-june-i-was-overdue-for-a)

[mosthomoeroticenemies]

The Rematch for the Ultimate Crown