177 points

Guys, its a joke, a meme. Some guy makes these fake notices like the woman who sweats on your couch, maggots appear and you are supposed to eat them to heal yourself.

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amazon spent a lot of money on trying to do this and then found out the technology doesn’t exist and outsourced it to india

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But that’s not a bowl. It’s more like a box. No, it’s ok. I’ll get on the call at 10pm.

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Some companies do outsource their “AI” to India, but automated checkout tech is actually good enough to be used in production now. A plain white background with separated fruits like this is exactly the environment where it works best.

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automated checkout tech is actually good enough to be used in production now

not really.

amazon’s just walk out is the leader in this area, and it came out recently that the bulk of transactions, 7 in 10, are offloaded for manual review in india

amazon of course denied the claim, but so in vague corporate speak, and failed to provide figures to counter the 7-in-10. they also did confirm that they’re scaling back just walk out. i don’t think those things would be the case if this technology worked as they were hoping.

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That was for automated checkout. Video people counters have been around for years. I’ve worked for companies that used them to count customers by department.

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this isn’t counting people. this is working out which item or items people pick up from a shelf and decide to keep, if any. that isn’t just similar to the automated checkout problem: it’s the same exact problem. if anything, this iteration of it is more challenging because a blueberry is a fair amount smaller than a tin of beans.

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No, facial recognition works (unfortunately), it’s just not good enough to look at an entire shopping cart and know what’s in it lol

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32 points

If lemmites didn’t have the social skills of a mosquito at a funeral they might be able to pick up on the INCREDIBLY subtle joke here.

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I’m not reading that comment chain. What’s the joke?

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2 points

The absurd premise of the sign?

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1 point

Lemmites being so divorced from reality they think this is real

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15 points

Man, everybody is so upset at this, it makes it even funnier.

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12 points

I was about to say this had obvious plant vibes lol

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I worry about the state of the world seeing how many people just take shit like this at face value without taking even a second to think about it.

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Wow, I absolutely detest people like this. How sad and pathetic does your life have to be to be doing something like this. Why can’t people just be normal???! Imagine if everyone went around spreading misinformation like that guy. Plums are not berries, people! Don’t let big berry claim this juicy deliciousness as their own!!!

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85 points

Strawberries aren’t berries either.

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25 points

At what point do we say that science is wrong about berries

You can’t look at me with a straight face and say a banana is a berry.

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23 points

Look at the whole fruit bundle before they break it apart for shipping. You can’t tell me it’s NOT a berry.

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21 points

Just gotta accept that we have Berry[culinary] and Berry[botanical] and these variants are unstated and must be inferred from context.

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3 points

Technically, a banana is the whole big-ass thing that grows on the tree. What you know as a banana is what is called a finger of a banana.

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A banana is a berry 😑

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Speaking of juicy imagine the shits you would have after eating 27 fucking plums

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8 points

Omar would know that

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4 points

World’s most regular Omar

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5 points

27 plums a month will not have a noticeable effect on your bowel movements.

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8 points

Imagine thinking plumbs are berries…

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104 points

This is basically the algorithms of the big tech companies but with extra steps. I guess it greatly illustrates how absurd they actually are and how weird it is to just shrug them off.

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The best part? Nobody can agree if advertising ala commercials actually works.

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10 points

“Nobody can agree”?

Is this kind of like how nobody can agree on whether we landed on the moon or whether climate change is real?

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8 points

Anecdotal, but I’ve boycotted products or stores because of annoying ads in the past. And even clever or entertaining ads eventually get annoying if they are shown too much.

I block most ads these days, so longer contribute to the negative ad returns like I used to, but I am curious about how many others like me are out there.

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That sounds like misinterpretation of studies if I had to guess. If anything maybe it would be how well they work at certain investment levels with breakpoints where it is no longer worth putting in additional money, or the efficacy of CERTAIN types of advertising. But IF they work at all? I am highly suspect of that even being a question. Brands that are well advertised are well known, and people who aren’t bothered to do research into every single product they buy are more likely to buy a product they have heard of before.

And if you’re an independent creative, like author, artist, musician, developer, and you DON’T advertise, you will sell zero copies of your work.

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59 points

Same landlord: follow me on my socials to know more about how your average poop size and weight compares to your neighbours.

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9 points

I could DESTROY that competition.

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6 points

Dude you don’t know who you’re up against!!

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3 points

Poor landlord must go through so many toilet cameras because of you two … the suffering might even make him appear human!

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4 points

Who uses a poop knife? You’ll be surprised.

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