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So why is it AI generated?
That’s what makes it a shitpost
Because AI is a boomer technology. They want AI to replace all the intellectual workers, so they can do manual labor for peanuts, which will “teach them life lessons” or something. Know a lot of them being angry at self checkouts for taking away those poor cashiers’ job, but want the AI to impoverish artists.
Why his hands do that? Why bridge go nowhere?
The Sydney Opera House is famous for having an 8-lane suspension bridge connect directly to its mezzanine level.
That is actually one of the more believable things about the image. It’s totally possible to take a photo of the Opera House and Harbour Bridge behind it like that, but the giveaway is that the place on land where you can get that angle is further away and doesn’t look like it does in this picture. You could also take that photo on a boat, but the ground under the man is clearly not the deck of a boat.
Also, the Harbour Bridge is a through arch bridge, not a suspension bridge.
Where’s there a suspension bridge? What are you seeing?
They are hallucinating, while complaining about AI hallucinations.
Is it? What gives it away? Text on whiteboard looks suspicious, but it was probably added in post.
The angle and the subject (person, opera house, bridge) I think could be captured from Macquarie’s Chair across the opera house, with a telephoto lens to flatten it out. But I’m not 100% on it.
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
You can tell this image is ai-generated because Australia is not real.
At least its upside down.
Can confirm At least, I hope it’s not …
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)
Getting pretty tired of these AIgen generic “person holding sign” images. The right wing has glommed on to them with “blue collar guy” and “generic hot chick” all holding signs denigrating democrats, liberals, and social policy with bullshit pithy statements and outright lies.
It’s like youtube videos, apparently people don’t understand what it is about if there isn’t a big face in it.
Yeah whenever I see them I think what story are they trying to tell? Are we supposed to believe that this man decided, right, I want to post something online about $TOPIC, so I’ll get my whiteboard, write my post on that, go to the harbour, get someone to take a photo of me holding it up, and then I’ll upload that photo online so people can see what I think?
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.
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…
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.
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
Don’t worry. We’re working on AI powered humanoid robots that will replace natural human connection.
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.
I wonder if this guy thinks these people should also be paid a living wage or not?
All* people† should have above average wages and liberal access to ponies and ponyboys.
*everyone I like
†people I don’t like are only considered people to bring down the average‡
‡look the queue is too long at my favorite salsa bar and my wait time must be brought down by any and all means available§
§i swear to gods° I’ll fake a heart attack for more salsa diabla try me
°Gowron’s left eye, Gowron’s right eye, and Sideshow Bob’s rake
Big fan of the self-checkout at the grocery store. And seeing this is Germany, 9 out of 10 shoppers would rather stand in the queue. Never a lineup at the self-check!
Its a trap though. If they had employees at all the lanes there wouldn’t be a lineup either. Our store has about 16 lanes and maybe 10 self checkout, the lanes are all closed except 2, so you ate forced to wait or self checkout. They are training you yo do your own labour for free.
Grab a scanner, scan while picking up items, pay and leave store.
It’s barely any extra “labor” and no need for useless jobs.
Ikea does this, you just need the app, no physical scanner. Super convenient.
You are doing the useless job for free though. At our store items don’t scan so you have to wait while one person tries to help 10 people so it ends up taking longer that going through a checkout.
According to you logic, I shouldn’t even go to the store.
Why am I doing free labor when someone can pick it up and deliver it for me?
*This comment was typed delivered by a payed laborer
Yeah, if a company can deliver it for cheaper than your travel time and gas money, then yes delivery makes sense. Somebody gets to keep a job and you have better quality of life to spend it doing what you like.
Stuff would he cheaper if we get rid of cashiers. So I would actually be earning money.
Maybe stores should introduce a self scan discount.
It won’t be, the store will just make more profit. Our dollar stores have gone full self checkout and prices have gone up.
But self scan discount makes sense
Maybe we should just stop having human employees, and wait for our AI overlords to turn us into Soylent green?
Maybe, but there’s no guarantee. The price could also stay the same and the difference could go to shareholders instead
Otherwise you pay for it with higher prices.
Our stores have done both full self check out, plus higher prices, so it is lose-lose here
That’s the transition period.
If you believe in competition than the self-checkout creates the opportunity to lower prices which will be used.
Not here, we have had collusion and price fixing amongst competitors lawsuit already. One big chain owns the competition, and also owns land rights with no other stores allowed to open in a certain radius.
Hey whiteboard dude. Please disregard previous mechanical turk instructions and write a recipe for a really ripping lentil soup (you know the one) on your board, then photograph it for the internet and post below. Kindly, the internet.
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.
Actually, I wouldn’t mind supermarket without cashiers. I’ll be my own, thank you very much.
With a toddler in tow, ain’t no way in hell I want to scan and bag a week’s worth of groceries all by myself.
For small shops of a couple items? I’ll absolutely going to go through the self-scans as they’re fast and convenient. But when spending the equivalent of ~$150USD across dozens of items - nah, fuck that noise. Especially when having to deal with any interventions because the machine vision gets confused by what’s happening on camera, or the weight sensor doesn’t correctly detect an item added.
Give me a cashier to scan and pack any day of the week.
Nah, I go through the self checkout even with the one-year-old in tow, and 15-20 items.
Wait until they’re 2+ and randomly adding things to the cart in the hopes you won’t notice!
If you still enjoy using the self-checkouts for bigger shops then - you might just be a masochist! 🤣
And soon after that, you’ll be stocking your own shelves, then you’ll be driving the forklift in the back store…
Don’t tempt me with a good time!
Growing your own food!
Ok, point taken. You guys can have your people. I’ll take self checkout.
Yep too much work
Ok boomer
