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Re:Shirt Without Stripes by rhizome on Monday April 20, 2020 @03:51PM (#22927748)
Then the algorithm would not be acting in the customer's interests.

Presumably this would be after the algo devalued people who clicked on "Next Page" until they came to a page that had stripeless shirts on it, or who, after the search, only ever clicked on stripeless shirts. "Deeds not words," dontchaknow.

Re:Shirt Without Stripes by etherealG on Monday April 20, 2020 @04:44PM (#22928319)
But the algorithm wasn’t programmed to act in the customer’s interest. It was programmed in amazons.