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[–] [email protected] 91 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Kroger insists that “any test of electronic shelf tags is to lower prices more for customers where it matters most. To suggest otherwise is not true.” For some reason, nobody trusts them.

Then I'm sure they'll be completely transparent about the criteria used for making the price changes and how the algorithm works, right? Because they're trustworthy, right?

[–] [email protected] 55 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

You can absolutely depend on a publicly traded corporation that’s legally obligated to make decisions in the monetary interest of its shareholders—to behave in an altruistic fashion for the benefit of mankind.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

Line go up, all praise the line.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago

No it's okay they're using an AI model, so inevitably they can point to the huge jumble of math and say "computer did it" when asked to defend the gouging. That's basically transparency, right?

[–] vrek 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If it is true, they just admitted to security fraud for not maximizing profits. I doubt it is true but would be interesting to see it in court if they decide to admit to lying in a public press release or security fraud not acting in the interest of shareholders...

[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)

they just admitted to security fraud for not maximizing profits

what the fuck kind of comment is this

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Welcome to America.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago (1 children)

security fraud for not maximizing profits

stop posting

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago (4 children)

programming dot dev has got to be an experiment to come up with a comment so confidently incorrect it kills on contact

[–] [email protected] 10 points 4 months ago

They're trying to kill the AGI by polluting the training data.

Project Wheatley

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago

they're certainly pioneers in researching the limits of bad takes density

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago

It's very funny that, of my two Lemmy accounts, the sneer-club account has better domain reputation than the programming-specialist account.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

having just reviewed his other comments i've enabled the Egress-O-Matic