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2026-11-01 15:29 UTC

Innocent People Are Being Accused of Shoplifting by Faulty AI-Facial Recognition Systems at an Alarming Rate: "It's the stuff of Kafkaesque nightmares."

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  • @shalafi@lemmy.world 2026-11-01 18:24

    When I worked at Lowe’s they could tell the instant shoplifters pulled into the parking lot. They even had nicknames for the repeat offenders. “Heads up, Dumb and Dumber just pulled in, no doubt headed for lumber.”

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  • @MoogleMaestro@lemmy.zip 2026-11-02 04:32

    This will ultimately be the death of retail stores. Half the reason anyone wants to go to a store in 2026 is to have a good time shopping in person. If going to the store leads to any chance of a shitty experience? Fuck it dude, I’ll just order online like everyone else I suppose.

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  • @Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 2026-11-01 17:18

    False accusation isn’t a crime over there? What a shitty place!

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  • Self Checkouts are not even self checkout anymore. You go up and scan your stuff then 2 times out of 3 someone has to come over and approve that you scanned everything. At that point just open the normal lanes back up

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  • @Kolanaki@pawb.social 2026-11-02 02:30

    Kafkaesque nightmares I gotta read something besides The Metamorphasis because all I associate with that phrase is physical body horror of becoming a bug. Somehow I don’t think that’s what they meant here.

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  • @Zen_Shinobi@lemmy.world 2026-11-01 15:42

    Can we actually see the reports? Not saying it can’t happen but using AI in articles creates lots of views. Is “Home Bargin” the only store doing this? Is it only in the UK? This is really poor reporting here.

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