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So the entire premise by which they were “recruiting” was dishonest? No one sees any problems with lying to people? Dishonesty has apparently become the norm, n

So the entire premise by which they were “recruiting” was dishonest? No one sees any problems with lying to people? Dishonesty has apparently become the norm, not the exception. Honestly and trust is a bedrock principle of society. It’s no wonder our society is in the state that it’s in today. You really cannot trust anything anyone says, especially large companies. They basically always lie and manipulate and are at a constant advantage to those of us who find dishonesty morally wrong.

furyofantares 3y ago
Eh, I don't think anyone participated because they just really wanted Netflix to have a better recommendation system. Teams put serious effort into it for the million dollar prize, which wasn't a lie. And hackers and tinkerers enjoyed the novelty of the challenge and the cool dataset to work with, also not a lie. I don't think they ever said they would use it necessarily either? I feel like it was obvious that it wasn't going to capture all of their actual requirements - your algorithm could be slow or expensive or difficult to adapt to new requirements or difficult to adapt to new data etc etc.