> Our verdict: This is false. Asda has confirmed the machines do not
store any visual data.
So that settles it. Once. And. For. All!
Seriously though. we're in an epistemic crisis. I wrote about it
here last week [0]. The problem is that nobody can believe anything
any more - we simply don't have a reasonable basis to, and AI will
only make this much worse. Investigative fact checking is an uphill
battle against corporate "reality management".
This was written in 17 March 2023. Does ASDA _now_ use face based
targeted advertising? What's to stop them according to the natural
laws of the enshitification of everything? Do we need to ask them
again each year and take their response on faith?
Where's the source code? Where's the system schematic? Where's the
design documents and audit logs?
And why did they build intimidating [1] dystopian technology and then
act surprised when people assume it is doing precisely what they would
expect it to?
The "fact-checking" researcher is taking a big gamble on nothing more
than corporate PR and then making strident claims about
"facts". Whether currently true or not I think eventually ASDA will
not be able to resist, and it will come out. Then this "fullfact"
outfit are going to have egg on their face.
> Our verdict: This is false. Asda has confirmed the machines do not store any visual data.
So that settles it. Once. And. For. All!
Seriously though. we're in an epistemic crisis. I wrote about it here last week [0]. The problem is that nobody can believe anything any more - we simply don't have a reasonable basis to, and AI will only make this much worse. Investigative fact checking is an uphill battle against corporate "reality management".
This was written in 17 March 2023. Does ASDA _now_ use face based targeted advertising? What's to stop them according to the natural laws of the enshitification of everything? Do we need to ask them again each year and take their response on faith?
Where's the source code? Where's the system schematic? Where's the design documents and audit logs?
And why did they build intimidating [1] dystopian technology and then act surprised when people assume it is doing precisely what they would expect it to?
The "fact-checking" researcher is taking a big gamble on nothing more than corporate PR and then making strident claims about "facts". Whether currently true or not I think eventually ASDA will not be able to resist, and it will come out. Then this "fullfact" outfit are going to have egg on their face.
[0] https://cybershow.uk/blog/posts/radical-disbelief-and-its-ca...
[1] They claim it is "solely as an anti-theft deterrent"