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by bachmeier 1907 days ago
> they adjusted my measurements with AI for a better fit

I'm trying to think of a way this makes sense. Do they have access to some big database about you that they can use to predict how you'll screw up your measurements?

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Oh good I am not the only one. Direct measurement would produce the best result here. Not a guess that AI has with 83% confidence level. I usually find a tailor and buy something from them and in the process they will give me all the measurements for everything else.
My guess would be their system decided OP's measurements were unrealistic and adjusted them towards their more "typical" body shape.
I wouldn't give their system that much credit -- the belt OP received doesn't even fit the trousers.

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That incomprehensible line above was written by my advanced AI. Or I was just lazy and wanted to sell something with a cool marketing buzzword, and without regard to ethics.
Your AI seems to have two hands on a standard QWERTY keyboard :)
Looks like I'll have to feed it a few million more data sets to train it on.
I thought that at first, but it doesn't make any sense, because:

You don't have any way to know which of the measurements is wrong.

You don't know what correction to apply. The best you can do is shrink along one or more of the dimensions in the direction of a mean of something, which may or may not be relevant to that customer. In return you intentionally mess up the orders of many customers, wasting their time in the process.