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Mar 2

How a company spammed over 500k t-shirt designs to Amazon Marketplace and created something incredibly offensive that does not actually exist

It costs nothing to create the design, nothing to submit it to Amazon and nothing for Amazon to host the product. If no-one buys it then the total cost of the experiment is effectively zero. But if the algorithm stumbles upon something special, something that is both unique and funny and actually sells, then everyone makes money.

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  1. brianvan reblogged this from miltnr and added:
    I think what he was trying to say was, “A program came up with the idea for these shirts that say rape is ok, and...
  2. miltnr reblogged this from barthel and added:
    I thought that this was an interesting and well done piece until the end, when Ashton writes, “If you don’t understand...
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    v i s h .
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