@arstechnica did Amazon ever claim this was “AI”? My understanding is that the stores used cameras and sensors to detect what shoppers took out of the store and these Indian reviewers were check on the system’s accuracy.
The issue isn’t that 1000 labourers were checking people out remotely and it was all smoke and mirrors, rather it’s that the automated system wasn’t accurate enough in the end.
It doesn’t change much, but it feels disingenuous to lump this in with other fake AI systems.