AI surveillance monitors shoppers in a charity shop while donated items are diverted into a waste bin.

Charity shops using AI to ban resellers are harming disabled people and low-income shoppers

How charity shops are using AI to target resellers I spotted this (click to watch clip, full video is below) yesterday: a ‘thrift warehouse’ publicly congratulating itself for using artificial intelligence to identify and block resellers. Not improve pricing. Not train staff. Not make online listings better. Just surveillance. The implication was familiar: resellers are […]

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