AI cameras at self-checkout and a captcha that locks you out: a user vents on AI misuse
TheOmniToad · reddit · 2026-11-13
A Reddit user vents about two frustrating AI deployments: their local grocery store installed face-directed AI cameras at self-checkout tills — presumably collecting biometric data (micro-expressions, shopping habits) that could feed surveillance databases. Separately, they can't log into their Epic Games account because hcaptcha rejects every answer, suspecting an algorithm pre-flagged them as a bot. They call this AI's "awkward phase": people who don't understand it deploying it carelessly, and joke that this is why they cheer on the singularity.
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