infecto

Born on December 18, 2013•5453 Karma

11 months ago

•on: They Asked an A.I. Chatbot Questions. The Answers ...

Brother like 90% of the freaks in these threads are heavily invested into the current LLM bubble so of course they have to hand wave anything negative.

MostlyStable•

on Aug 8, 2024

•on: Costco membership scanners coming to clubs in shar...

Denying at time of purchase would be a significant (depending on frequency of occurrence I guess) additional workload on staff. The guests certainly aren't going to be restocking all the stuff they grabbed.

As for the customer friendliness of the proposed scanner, in my mind it depends on how quick and easy it is. If it's not too much of a slowdown relative to the current "flash my card at the staff person", then I don't think I'd mind it. However, if it starts causing lines to get in, yeah that's going to be a problem.

Additionally, I agree with the other commenter that, just from the details as provided, I don't even see how the proposal will solve the problem. A scanner will check that the card is a valid card, but unless it's paired with some kind of facial recognition, I'm not sure how it will prevent card sharing.