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?
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?
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.
Between this and the Japanese grocery store with the Company Face, I’m wondering how much are we going to have to
bribepay Charles Stross to write the book where the good guys winabout as likely as getting Charlie Brooker to write a good ending
@o7___o7 (Checks …) you may like “A Conventional Boy” (coming next January 7th)? And if I ever get “Ghost Engine” (the space opera) done, that has a happy ending.
I wonder if it is possible to confuse the cameras. Figure out what criteria make a price lower (skin color? time of day? no idea), then dress up like that / wear a mask with a face printed on it or something.
wear a mask of the CEO
