AI Doesn’t Get Me

Amazon has a new AI feature that is supposed to describe you based on your shopping. I shop on Amazon a lot but its AI has misread me completely:

Aside from the cat care products, none of this is true. I hate grocery delivery, I’m the exact opposite of a vegetarian, and I prefer Gerolsteiner or Borjomi for sparking water.

This part is probably based on the purchases I made for my kid but she hasn’t liked unicorn toys since she was 4:

I’m also quite stunned by “the girl doesn’t read books” part. We are maniacal readers in the family. Unless the girl in question is the cat, there’s no non-reader in our household. Also, we don’t have a girl who dislikes pink in the house:

But the one that really slaughtered me is this:

Every line item on it is wrong but the “has a boyfriend” part is really disturbing. Nobody in the household is of age to have a boyfriend, and the cat is spayed.

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