bobloadmire@lemmy.worldtoA Boring Dystopia@lemmy.world•Amazon reportedly used a secret algorithm to jack up prices
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1 year agoNo, you’re doing capitalism just like Amazon and everyone else. And if you don’t want to do it personally feel free to write a script to do it just like Amazon
I guess? I always just assume that’s what’s going on all the time. But there’s also people that are going to be massively hyperbolic like yourself too, which I also assume is going on all the time. Everyone is just trying to get money.
Also I wouldn’t call this software sophisticated at all, its pretty rudimentary. It’s just comparing numbers and adjusting them by an offset. They also stopped using it, I assume because it wasn’t sophisticated enough to account for the myriad of market forces at play.