...a bit... off

"Sponsored products related to your purchase..."


My purchase:

 

LOL, you'll be seeing those for weeks!

 

The nice lady with the pajama flap down was a cool algorithm mashup for a while.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/21/why...s-is-following-you-all-over-the-internet.html

Spoiler

https://www.amazon.com/BZB-Button-D...jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

 

Why do you think that’s so strange? Solder paste is most likely bought by men and even better by men who can DYI. Makes perfect sense to me. Let us know how long you are still getting these ads.

 

Let me think, solder and plumbing, there must be some connection.

Bob

 

Let me think, solder and plumbing, there must be some connection.

Bob

1. Not the sort of solder used for plumbing.
2. Not the sort of plumbing that uses solder.

 

Why do you think that’s so strange? Solder paste is most likely bought by men and even better by men who can DYI. Makes perfect sense to me. Let us know how long you are still getting these ads.

That is a commercial urinal part, not something for a DYI project. If I was a plumber who works on commercial plumbing, purchasing SMD solder paste would not be an indicator of that.

The two products are not reasonably connected in any way In terms of recommending one on account of the other.

 

1. Not the sort of solder used for plumbing.
2. Not the sort of plumbing that uses solder.

I guess my pun was a bit too subtle

Bob.

 

I guess my pun was a bit too subtle

Bob.

In isolation, I might have read it differently, the comment that preceded it made the context different.

 

The two products are not reasonably connected in any way In terms of recommending one on account of the other.

You can't blame them for trying?

 

Perhaps image recognition is used by the algorithm. The solder syringe might be interpreted as a phallic object .

 

Perhaps image recognition is used by the algorithm. The solder syringe might be interpreted as a phallic object .

Or, the urinal part looks like a syringe...

 

My take is that there's definitely a bug in Amazon's product/consumer relations algorithm... or maybe some programmer thought it a good idea to brainstorm loosely related words into product definitions and this is the result.

 

If you ever tried to price sort items you would know their algorithms suck. I guess no company is perfect.

 

These AI's...they have dreams...

In this case it just happens to see an automatic urinal.