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Re:Is Amazon Violating U.S. Antitrust Laws? by MereInterest on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @08:47PM (#19734539)
Depends. Did they intentionally go out of their way to teach the model that predatory pricing, despite being profitable, is not allowed?
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Re:Is Amazon Violating U.S. Antitrust Laws? by chii on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @08:50PM (#19734558)
why does it matter that the decision came out of an AI model?

Predatory pricing is either legal or not (in the eyes of the court, or legislations).

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Re:Is Amazon Violating U.S. Antitrust Laws? by MereInterest on Tuesday April 23, 2019 @08:55PM (#19734583)
We are in agreement on that. The point that I was attempting to make was that an AI model will do exactly what it was trained to do. If a model is trained to maximize profit without consideration for the law, then it will find all the unethical and illegal ways to price goods.
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