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Amazon's Just Walk Out System and the Role of Underpaid Workers

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Exploring Amazon's decision to phase out its cashierless checkout system, Just Walk Out, while uncovering its heavy reliance on underpaid overseas workers, particularly in India. The chapter delves into Amazon Mechanical Turk as a platform for on-demand global workforce hiring, criticizing the term 'diverse' in this context. It also discusses the historical reference of the Mechanical Turk illusion and the necessity of human intervention in machine learning processes.

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