If you ask Alexa, Amazon’s voice assistant AI system, whether Amazon is a monopoly, it responds by saying it doesn’t know. It doesn’t take much to make it lambaste the other tech giants, but it’s silent about its own corporate parent’s misdeeds.

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    1 year ago

    I’m no fan of Amazon or corporate bullshit in general, but in the strictest sense of what a monopoly is, Amazon doesn’t have one. They do still have competition. They do not have exclusive control over the online retail market. They ha e the largest share, but not all of it.

    If you ask any AI the same question, it will provide the same answer.

    Instead, ask it whether Amazon is anti-competitive or not and see if there’s a bias. Because they are most certainly that.