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[–] NaibofTabr@infosec.pub 91 points 3 months ago (3 children)

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.pub 55 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] barsquid@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago

Line go up, all praise the line.

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.dev 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

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...

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 14 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

they just admitted to security fraud for not maximizing profits

what the fuck kind of comment is this

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 1 points 3 months ago

Welcome to America.

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

security fraud for not maximizing profits

stop posting

[–] self@awful.systems 11 points 3 months ago (4 children)

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

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 10 points 3 months ago

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

Project Wheatley

[–] froztbyte@awful.systems 7 points 3 months ago

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

[–] corbin@awful.systems 5 points 3 months ago

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

[–] dgerard@awful.systems 4 points 3 months ago

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