Sunday my wife and I were doing self-checkout at Walmart when a warning message came up on the screen and it showed a video of me from above doing something that the AI interpreted as suspect. One of the clerks came over and cleared it.
The point is, besides surveillance cameras everwhere includinng the checkout kiosks, Walmart is using AI to flag suspected theft.
We are on the cusp of robocop world.
You either put your hand in your pocket or you took your hand out of your pocket. Who knows what could have been in that hand or in that pocket?
This is why I always us the cashier and never self check out at wally weird. That way if there is a mistake it’s their fault.
If the customers had a receipt, all they had to do was show the receipt and stop attention whoring by filming the whole thing.
I’ve been “flagged” by some of my motions at the checkout - they clear it in seconds and I continue with my scanning/paying - if there weren’t so many thieves and such laxness, we wouldn’t have these issues.
I’d rather a minor inconvenience than have higher prices...
Walmart doesn’t accuse anyone falsely - at least in my neck of the woods.
I refuse to use self checkout. I hate them. I do not work for the company and I am not getting a discount.