AI to summarize amazon reviews. This one is about a printer on Amazon. Interesting approach. Would you trust the AI generated summary?
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nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 05:16:20 JST nixCraft 🐧 -
Will (willa763@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 05:17:52 JST Will @nixCraft Amazon is just the worst. In a way, I love the fact AI and AI bots are taking over. My ultimate hope is it kills the site and people stop trusting and using Amazon. That antitrust law-violating monopoly has destroyed so many jobs and lives, it deserves dissolution, but with the way things are going I doubt most people will care.
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Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶 (catavz@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 05:25:52 JST Zeki Çatav 🤔 ☕ 🕯️🎶 @nixCraft Would you trust customer reviews? Especially on Amazon!
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Ed Cates (edcates@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 05:30:17 JST Ed Cates @nixCraft I think I understand what it is saying there, but I must admit the use of "performance" in both the + and - summaries is a bit...wrong.
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Nazo (nazokiyoubinbou@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 07:49:17 JST Nazo @nixCraft They've had these up for a while. They're pretty useless. My favorite are the ones that straight up contradict themselves. Like they might say "customers commented that it's really fast, but also customers felt it was really slow."
There usually are only two or three reviews you even need to read to get the idea of it anyway. The "top positive" and "top negative" are often sufficient quite on their own. I just look for the first few who actually wrote more than two lines.
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The Green Knight (greenknight23@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 10:33:54 JST The Green Knight @nixCraft me reading half of this review
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Joaquim (harold_du_balzac@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 12:25:12 JST Joaquim @nixCraft Not if it's owned by Amazon.
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Oroshimarru (oroshimarru@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 19:56:15 JST Oroshimarru @nixCraft no, beacause a random mix of dumb comments is at best an indicator of what specific ones you are gonna need
For me, this is similar to average star rating, its sometimes good to know, but not blindly trustworthy -
EJ (machineyearning@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 31-Dec-2023 22:23:41 JST EJ @nixCraft the "quality of the printer is good" but the "printer's performance leaves people unsatisfied" seems inherently contradictory and identifies not just an issue with generative AI's inability to properly reason, but also how worthless the average Amazon reviews are for product evaluation.
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