Incident 520: Amazon Fresh Cameras Failed to Register Purchased Items
Description: Amazon Fresh's system of tracking cameras in its cashier-less stores was reported by shoppers for failing to detect items they purchased.
Entities
View all entitiesAlleged: Amazon Fresh developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Amazon Fresh.
Incident Stats
Incident ID
520
Report Count
2
Incident Date
2022-05-08
Editors
Khoa Lam
Incident Reports
Reports Timeline
seanbmcgregor.com · 2022
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Do Amazon Fresh shoppers have a duty to shop in a manner the cameras understand? I simultaneously grabbed three items from a shelf at my new cashierless checkout store while thousands of cameras monitored my movements, but after placing the…
gizmodo.com · 2024
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Amazon is phasing out its checkout-less grocery stores with “Just Walk Out” technology, first reported by The Information Tuesday. The company’s senior vice president of grocery stores says they’re moving away from Just Walk Out, which reli…
Variants
A "variant" is an incident that shares the same causative factors, produces similar harms, and involves the same intelligent systems as a known AI incident. Rather than index variants as entirely separate incidents, we list variations of incidents under the first similar incident submitted to the database. Unlike other submission types to the incident database, variants are not required to have reporting in evidence external to the Incident Database. Learn more from the research paper.