Amazon "Just Walk Out" was 1,000 Indians in a call center watching you shop

Amazon's flagship cashier-less grocery tech was marketed as pure AI computer vision. In April 2024, reporting revealed it relied on over 1,000 workers in India manually reviewing shopping footage and labeling items. Amazon quietly killed Just Walk Out at its US Fresh stores weeks later.

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Amazon "Just Walk Out" was 1,000 Indians in a call center watching you shop

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Amazon's flagship cashier-less grocery tech was marketed as pure AI computer vision. In April 2024, reporting revealed it relied on over 1,000 workers in India manually reviewing shopping footage and labeling items. Amazon quietly killed Just Walk Out at its US Fresh stores weeks later.

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