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Amazon Products with AI-Generated Names Like "I Cannot Fulfill This Request "

9 points| snowfresco | 2 years ago |futurism.com

7 comments

The backlash against ai is already strong, with companies getting rid of it. This will only accelerate it.

belter|2 years ago

They need to add some CryptoAICoins

miohtama|2 years ago

Amazon has already been flooded with machine generated product descriptions for a decade or more. Whether or not someone uses OpenAI, Python script, Excel or something else to generate the descriptions is irrelevant.

SushiHippie|2 years ago

Related discussion yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38971012 | 1274 points and 717 comments

netsharc|2 years ago

At least with human copywriters there's motivation to do work (the need to earn money).. looking forward to "AI" translators to sell me a hovercraft full of eels.

tuatoru|2 years ago

Why anyone buys anything from the Amazon store besides e-books is beyond me.

netsharc|2 years ago

Library Genesis makes that unnecessary as well...