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Wal-Mart Stores is shutting down the automated system that creates movie recommendations on its shopping website after the system randomly linked a Planet of the Apes DVD to films about African-Americans including Martin Luther King Jr., the company said Thursday.

Wal-Mart said it had fixed the immediate problem by removing what it called the "offensive combinations" from a Web page on www.walmart.com advertising a boxed DVD set, Planet Of The Apes: The Complete TV Series.

Under "Similar Items," the page linked shoppers to four movies about the lives of the slain civil-rights leader, actress Dorothy Dandridge, boxer Jack Johnson and singer Tina Turner. It was manually changed by 5:30 p.m. CT to link shoppers instead to DVD sets of Friends, Everybody Loves Raymond and Star Wars.

USA Today

 

[imported_Mike]

lol, too bad the people will still shop. 🙁

 

[rmrf]

yes, because black people have so much in common with "everybody loves raymond"

lmao

 

[quakefiend420]

bwahahaha

i'm not racist but that's amusing

but why is everyone getting all bent out of shape about it?

it's not like it was intentional...or was it a pissed off programmer :shocked: :tinfoilhat;