This does read very much like AI-generated content. For example, here’s what Bard generated as an answer to this question.

It’s the list-based approach, the hyperbole, the too-many adjectives, the writing style that sounds like SEO that makes it sound like AI.

Hehehe yes it’s AI generated. Social news aggregator experiment. Prompt was to be colloquial. The comment got at this point 40 upvotes. And yours, which is true, got downvotes…

The double bullet points certainly do suggest it was copied from an AI generated text, but is it inaccurate?

AI typically doesnt use hyperbole phrases like "magic" taxi doors, or "fancy" toilets or even Robots "everywhere" unless its specifically trained and asked to do so.

I think that Ai would be more likely to use accurate descriptors like "Automated taxi doors", "high-tech toilets" or "robots are commonplace"

Weird, seems like a lot of flat-earthers are from the UK. Not sure what your point is.

Well yea, you’re from Michigan.

The person you replied to is from Nevada.

I don’t see the problem here.

I was going to say the same. Decathlon is pioneering this I guess.

And, of course, Uniqlo does it too

I wouldn’t say they are common but they definitely exist. The new harbour front parking in Aarhus is fully automated; you drive under the public library, which is raised on concrete pillars, and enter into any available “garage” - after you’re out of the car, you press a button to close the “garage” and the floor plate is lowered down for automated storage. An empty plate is then brought back up and the garage is opened again for the next person. It apparently increased capacity 40% to do it this way.

https://youtu.be/GOslhevCemo?si=Adf_CqF3XKPqb2PB

It is a reference to US culture's big box store and monopoly driven markets. The USA has lots of products and niches, but very few people here seek them out.

Retail here in the USA is mostly driven by big box stores and wholesale distribution chains that hold monopolies in every major product category from which consumers make purchases. These outlets tend to offer high profit margin products and limit consumer product availability to just these high profit items from convenient local retail sources. It happens in stores from your local bike shop's distribution chain to big box home improvement stores to the small business general retail killers of Walmart and Target, or local grocery stores. Either the store chain is as large as the major wholesale distributors, or the small business is dependent on the wholesale supply chain. Product profit margins are always kept low, putting a strain on any small retailers, and the wholesale distributors readily offer credit lines and the convenience of central product ordering and combined free shipping, while general shipping prices in the USA are very high for small businesses.

This complex combination makes the US market mostly a situation where the consumer just goes to a big box store and buys whatever is available without doing any research or shopping around. This in turn has lead to further profit margin optimisation where even the large competing big box stores are all carrying the same physical hardware contract manufactured by the same factory with only different lettering and colors.

This junk is so prevalent that even major Japanese brands like Makita are not the same high quality tools as the ones sold in Japan and are the exact same contract manufactured junk found in every other big box store's tools section.

There is no path to retail market for grass roots innovations in the USA and therefore no interesting novelties or innovations in niches like there are in Japan. Stuff no doubt exists and many trying to succeed, but the distribution and big box monopolies rarely take on any product unless it is highly profitable in their middle man niches on par with their highly optimised source chain. So the only real products that can break into the market are ultra low quality over priced junk.

• I was the wholesale buyer for a chain of retail stores for 6 years.

Lemmy as opposed to Japan? I think OP just neglected to post his coubtry of origin.