| >>How do we arrive at "amazon endorses the challenge"? The system Amazon's designed, built, maintains, and runs, actively interpreted the request and out of thousands or millions of answers, specifically selected THAT ONE to return as the result. They obviously had somewhere between zero and massively insufficient filtering process to filter out inappropriate or non-responsive answers. They presumably have filters for porn and vulgarity, which would cause an uproar, but are not bothering with life-protecting. This is because either 1) Amazon are too stupid to anticipate the problem, or 2) they did anticipate the problem and don't care enough or figure, like Ford did with the Pinto, that the costs likely damages are lower than the costs of making it safe. Either way, the only ethical choice is to not field that product. Amazon did not take that choice. >>And, whatever logic is used, does it also indicate Google, Bing and Yahoo endorse it as well? If they are providing similar answers to children, without caveats, yes, of course. |