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> You can still choose which companies you interact with. Right, which is my point. They won't mind something like limiting access to college women to those wi
by TheAdamAndChe 9y ago
> You can still choose which companies you interact with.
Right, which is my point. They won't mind something like limiting access to college women to those with good scores like America would, so they won't take their money elsewhere. Their different culture causes companies to behave differently than they would in the US.
- yorwba 9y agoI just spent a bit of time researching the incident, since I don't really follow Chinese social media that closely, and found a Zhihu (Chinese Quora) question that was quite informative: https://www.zhihu.com/question/52987944 https://www.zhihu.com/question/52987944 Some people definitely did mind, since the social dynamics caused lots "pretty women" posting selfies (not all of themselves) to ask those men with scores > 750 for money and/or attention. Someone punned the Chinese name for Alipay (支付宝, zhifubao) into "pay the pimp" (支付鸨, pronounced identically), which might give you an idea how someone who culturally values social stability might come to reject such a company. As far as I can tell, the feature was then scrapped pretty quickly.
- dis-sys 9y agoyou forgot to mention something important here - the "feature" is designed, implemented and promoted by Ant Financial's Alipay, yet no one took responsibility for it, no one got fired/demoted. it is a huge contrast to their own moon cake incident 1.5 years ago in which developers who used automated scripts to boost their chances of purchasing moon cakes sold by the company at favourable prices got fired on the spot for violating company policies. the message is clear here - you are encouraged to violate laws to try maximizing company revenue but you must stick to company policies. it is a social risk to allow companies like this to master AI techniques.