Kroger, the US’s largest supermarket chain, has been rolling out AI-powered “dynamic pricing” — hooked to cameras on its display shelves. Since 2018, the chain has been using digital price labels t…
  • NaibofTabr@infosec.pubEnglish
    91·
    2 年前

    Kroger insists that “any test of electronic shelf tags is to lower prices more for customers where it matters most. To suggest otherwise is not true.” For some reason, nobody trusts them.

    Then I’m sure they’ll be completely transparent about the criteria used for making the price changes and how the algorithm works, right? Because they’re trustworthy, right?

    • henfredemars@infosec.pubEnglish
      561·
      2 年前

      You can absolutely depend on a publicly traded corporation that’s legally obligated to make decisions in the monetary interest of its shareholders—to behave in an altruistic fashion for the benefit of mankind.

    • YourNetworkIsHauntedEnglish
      9·
      2 年前

      No it’s okay they’re using an AI model, so inevitably they can point to the huge jumble of math and say “computer did it” when asked to defend the gouging. That’s basically transparency, right?

    • vrek@programming.devBannedEnglish
      119·
      2 年前

      If it is true, they just admitted to security fraud for not maximizing profits. I doubt it is true but would be interesting to see it in court if they decide to admit to lying in a public press release or security fraud not acting in the interest of shareholders…

      • froztbyteEnglish
        14·
        2 年前

        they just admitted to security fraud for not maximizing profits

        what the fuck kind of comment is this

      • David GerardOPMAEnglish
        11·
        2 年前

        security fraud for not maximizing profits

        stop posting

        • selfAEnglish
          11·
          2 年前

          programming dot dev has got to be an experiment to come up with a comment so confidently incorrect it kills on contact

          • V0ldekEnglish
            10·
            2 年前

            They’re trying to kill the AGI by polluting the training data.

            Project Wheatley

          • froztbyteEnglish
            7·
            2 年前

            they’re certainly pioneers in researching the limits of bad takes density

          • corbinEnglish
            5·
            2 年前

            It’s very funny that, of my two Lemmy accounts, the sneer-club account has better domain reputation than the programming-specialist account.

          • David GerardOPMAEnglish
            4·
            2 年前

            having just reviewed his other comments i’ve enabled the Egress-O-Matic