eicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agoInnocent People Are Being Accused of Shoplifting by Faulty AI-Facial Recognition Systems at an Alarming Rate: "It's the stuff of Kafkaesque nightmares."futurism.comexternal-linkmessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1751arrow-down17
arrow-up1744arrow-down1external-linkInnocent People Are Being Accused of Shoplifting by Faulty AI-Facial Recognition Systems at an Alarming Rate: "It's the stuff of Kafkaesque nightmares."futurism.comeicker@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 days agomessage-square55fedilink
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up32·13 days agoWhen I worked at Lowe’s they could tell the instant shoplifters pulled into the parking lot. They even had nicknames for the repeat offenders. “Heads up, Dumb and Dumber just pulled in, no doubt headed for lumber.”
minus-squareblargh513@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·12 days agoHow does one shoplift lumber?
minus-squareAceticon@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·12 days agoPut it in your pants and claim you just have wood.
minus-squareskaffi@infosec.publinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·12 days agoThe nickname wasn’t because it rhymes. Because it doesn’t.
minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·11 days agoLots of smaller goodies in there and that’s where they always entered.
When I worked at Lowe’s they could tell the instant shoplifters pulled into the parking lot. They even had nicknames for the repeat offenders.
“Heads up, Dumb and Dumber just pulled in, no doubt headed for lumber.”
How does one shoplift lumber?
Put it in your pants and claim you just have wood.
Casually
The nickname wasn’t because it rhymes. Because it doesn’t.
Lots of smaller goodies in there and that’s where they always entered.