Only God knows why

Probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_digit

“designed to” is in the text of the law. But it’s not clearly written.

Those seem to be like Amazon Go, where you just take what you want and it magically charges you.

Whether that is worth avoiding pressing two buttons or not is debatable (totally isn’t), but it is definitely something you can’t easily do without AI.

I don’t think I’ve seen anyone really promote AI as a solution to something that could trivially be better done by ordinary programs. Nobody is saying we should replace simple maths with AI. There’s no AI sorting algorithm. No AI DNS server. No AI ALU.

AI is being pushed in places where we don’t have any other automated solution - writing code, natural human interaction, reading and writing prose, etc.

Frankly you’re just holding it wrong if you expect it to do actual data processing like this directly.

Ask it to write a Python script to compute the result and it will get it 100% right.

Eh you made me read it now. It’s not super clearly written but it does sound to me like it is only services that are designed to circumvent the moralising that are prohibited. It’s a little ambiguous though.

The more interesting thing I learned from reading it is that it isn’t just about banning porn. It’s also about banning the depiction of trans people - even descriptions! Insane. Come on America.

Corporate VPNs would be allowed presumably.