General News Amazon removes controversial shirts from website (TW)

Yeah, when I read about this I was pretty shocked! I think removing them was the right idea in the end though...

 

What....why....wh-...I don't even know what to say to these awful T shirts.

 

I saw this story and they only showed the second shirt so I thought it was just some sort of bad typo, but looking at it now....I think not.

 

I read the CNN article, and as is said at the bottom, from how these were generated, it's an excusable mistake since the company acted on it quickly. As a tech geek myself, I can easily see how it would happen.

Oops.

 

Who on earth would want to wear those t-shirts? They're disgusting.

 

How did this even make it on the website? It just seems like this was something that could've easily been prevented, or that there would be more precautions to prevent this type of mistake from happening.

 

Seriously, you might as well carry around a sign that says, "Sexual Offender"

 

Wow...just wow. These shirts should have never made it to their main website. I'd have to seriously restrain myself from hurting a person who wore one of those in public. Some people...:tantrum:

 

The sad part is that these are probably extremely tame.

I love Amazon. I think that they proably just didn't know. There's so much on there.

 

This is sick. I don't know how anyone would think this is funny. What is this world coming to?

 

Keep in mind that these were generated by a computer, not a human. The computer of course has no idea what words it is putting together, and how they might be interpreted. If you read the story, none of these were ever even sold, produced, or even thought of by a human being.

I guess my role as a tech geek makes me a little more forgiving here. It was an honest mistake of not filtering what went out on the website before it did. I don't think that anyone actually intended any harm to come to women.

 

That's why I hate shirts with those stupid slogans, like: "Aye He/She's Mine," you never know who can alter what it says.

But I understand if it was made by a computer. I don't think any sensible person would be able to make something like that. It'd be even more awful if people had actually bought them before they were pulled...at least we know people on Twitter aren't as stupid as others make them out to be.

 

These should be burned

 

wait. howwwwwww could a computer even generate this? like someone already said, you'd think there'd be plenty of precautions taken to make sure the computer never generates something profane or horrible like this. i'm glad amazon was like whoaaaa take them down! but how could this seriously happen?!

 

I would definitely want someone to wear those T-shirts, simply because we need to know who exactly we're going to kill.

 

Yep, I've had naming algorithms also come up with some rather unfortunate names.

 

Thirded. My favorite being "Did you mean He Invented?"

 

Keep Calm and Beat the Crap out of Anybody Who Wears These.