Amazon reviewing website after algorithm suggests bomb-making ingredients

Reuters ^ | 9-20-17

[SJackson]

suggesting items that could be bought together to produce explosives on Monday, days after an apparently home-made bomb was detonated on the London Underground network.

The ingredients, which are legal to purchase, were included in a “Frequently bought together” section in the listings for chemicals, the broadcaster said.

Other materials that could be used in bomb making, such as ball bearings, ignition systems and remote detonators, were available on the site, and some of them were suggested on the same page as the chemicals in the “Customers who bought this item also bought” section, Channel 4 said.

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Artificial “intelligence” lacks common sense. It doesn’t know what it is doing. All humans know certain things. No program can possibly know them all.

[SJackson]

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Nothing I recognize on the US site. Looked at the UK site, mostly chemicals, but sulphuric acid and ball bearings came up. Terrorists like to same money too.

[Fido969]

Yikes. The feds will bust me for reloading ammo at this rate. Not to mention black-powder reenactments.

[Berlin_Freeper]

https://www.amazon.com/s?field-price=0-0&node=154606011&keywords=search

For $0.00 kindle ebooks replace “search” in the link above with your interest. For example:

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[Yaelle]

Absolutely hysterical!

When I started making the Weston A Price infant formula for my 7 week old baby girl, I did get a few of the ingredients from Amazon and they did list all the others. It made me happy to not be alone seeking truly healthful nourishment for my baby.

Funny to see that terrorists making explosives get the same convenient heads up: “Customers who bought this fertilizer also bought... THESE ball bearings...THESE nails and screws... THIS 12 foot cotton wick... THIS box of gunpowder... THIS prayer rug... THIS subway pass...

[spokeshave]

Just doing that "Frequently bought together” thingy tat Americans won't do.

When "Frequently bought together” is banned only outlaws will do a "Frequently bought together”

[spokeshave]

...and hopefully explode themselves and friends “Frequently bought together”

[dp0622]

You mean it doesn’t know what it’s doing is wrong, am I correct?

Seems ilke we’re a while away from implanting morality into AI.

But what do i know?

[Ben Mugged]

Folks may be missing an important point. The algorithm is based on buying trends indicating many folks buying all these items are in fact buying parts to assemble a bomb. It is showing buying trends.

[ptsal]

Home brew trouble.

If the drum beat to ban guns is valid, it seems like the next logical step is to ban Amazon, Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc.

These information sources are facilitating bring information together that can be used in a socially destructive manner.

Where will this end?

<>If you do NOT have a moral compass, the ship will sail over the edge of the earth or fall into an abyss.

[discostu]

That’s what exclusionary lists are for. It’s not supposed to have common sense, it’s supposed to have been programmed by people who said “we probably shouldn’t be suggesting the bombs and poison and other really unpleasant things”.

[sparklite2]

I can see SNL’s weekly update doing a snark on it.
It’s actually pretty funny.

[posterchild]

It is hysterical. I never heard of Weston A Price and looked up their website - thanks for the tip!

[sparklite2]

I don’t know. Let me ask my Alexa.

[sparklite2]

<>If you do NOT have a moral compass, the ship will sail over the edge of the earth or fall into an abyss.

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And if you have too many moral compasses, you’ll sink to the bottom.

[discostu]

Remember buying trends can be very small sample sizes. If 100 people buy Common Household Bomb Ingredient A and 2 of those people also CHBI B around the same time and the other 98 people have no overlap in their other purchases you’ve created a “trend” for their algorithm. And those 2 might not even be making bombs.

[ptsal]

What....? too many ?

...singular moral compass...

[SandRat]

while in our younger days, we would go to a real library, to read real books, on how to do, naughty things like that