“Keep Calm And Rape A Lot” T-Shirts Show Automation Growing Pains | Singularity Hub
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le #spam sur #amazon, avec une #automatisation de la "créativité", continue à faire des ravages :
how exactly did a bunch of offensive shirts get on Amazon in the first place?
Solid Gold Bomb used an #algorithm (software that follows an automated step-by-step process) that combined words pulled from a few lists to generate thousands of catchy T-shirt phrases. These phrases were automatically loaded into a T-shirt manufacturer’s computers, and overlaid onto a T-shirt photo to produce images that are then displayed on Amazon. When someone places an order for a shirt on Amazon, the manufacturer’s computers are notified and the shirt is then printed, packaged, and shipped out. 
#viol