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Sounds like an Amazon problem, not an AI problem. Amazon doesn't seem to curate their marketplace at all. It's full of fake products and no-name chinese vendor

Sounds like an Amazon problem, not an AI problem. Amazon doesn't seem to curate their marketplace at all. It's full of fake products and no-name chinese vendors selling low-quality goods.

DangitBobby 3y ago
I'm sure many of the new problems in the AI era will rhyme with this one. There are vulnerabilities and weaknesses baked into systems that we just don't appreciate because it wasn't practical to exploit them. Now with the speed and scale made possible with AI, there will be thousands of previously unexplored ways to mislead, scam, and waste people's time.
tryptophan 3y ago
Might as well go to aliexpress and buy from the original source for a 50% discount.
- Legend2440 3y ago
  True, but then you gotta wait until next month instead of next day. Amazon's delivery network is the biggest thing they have going for them.
  - blibble 3y ago
    should be their new employee cult slogan "who cares what we deliver as long as it gets there quickly" not quite as snappy as "Customer Obsession", but more honest
poorjout 3y ago
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a_bonobo 3y ago
I'm honestly amazed people still buy at Amazon. It's similar to AliExpress in terms of reliability, but with the added bonus of the listing lying to your face!
pessimizer 3y ago
It's a toilet. I can't figure out how to trust any listing there. I stopped ordering from there not because I was protesting or anything, I was just sick of annoying Amazon support, who are nice people having a long day. I've had less suffering and better results buying things from random people on Craigslist. I'm an Amazon nightmare. They see my account going from ordering every other day 25 years ago, often big ticket items, and barrelling into Prime when it happened, to dropping Prime and gradually reduced to ordering every other year. Or maybe I'm a rounding error. But I'd rather go to the store than order from Amazon.
- r00fus 3y ago
  Same here - I order like 1-2 times a quarter from them, but I used to order 1-2 times a week. Quit Prime too. I still find stuff on there that I'm willing to gamble on, and it arrives very fast but it's usually small ticky tacky items (e.g. an adapter/mount for something on my bike etc). There is a large population that's not us however, who simply want the cheapest thing that fits the bill and don't know about their FBA dishonesty.

Sounds like an Amazon problem, not an AI problem. Amazon doesn't seem to curate their marketplace at all. It's full of fake products and no-name chinese vendors selling low-quality goods.

DangitBobby 3y ago

I'm sure many of the new problems in the AI era will rhyme with this one. There are vulnerabilities and weaknesses baked into systems that we just don't appreciate because it wasn't practical to exploit them. Now with the speed and scale made possible with AI, there will be thousands of previously unexplored ways to mislead, scam, and waste people's time.

tryptophan 3y ago

Might as well go to aliexpress and buy from the original source for a 50% discount.

Legend2440 3y ago
True, but then you gotta wait until next month instead of next day. Amazon's delivery network is the biggest thing they have going for them.
- blibble 3y ago
  should be their new employee cult slogan "who cares what we deliver as long as it gets there quickly" not quite as snappy as "Customer Obsession", but more honest

poorjout 3y ago

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a_bonobo 3y ago

I'm honestly amazed people still buy at Amazon. It's similar to AliExpress in terms of reliability, but with the added bonus of the listing lying to your face!

pessimizer 3y ago

It's a toilet. I can't figure out how to trust any listing there. I stopped ordering from there not because I was protesting or anything, I was just sick of annoying Amazon support, who are nice people having a long day. I've had less suffering and better results buying things from random people on Craigslist. I'm an Amazon nightmare. They see my account going from ordering every other day 25 years ago, often big ticket items, and barrelling into Prime when it happened, to dropping Prime and gradually reduced to ordering every other year. Or maybe I'm a rounding error. But I'd rather go to the store than order from Amazon.

r00fus 3y ago
Same here - I order like 1-2 times a quarter from them, but I used to order 1-2 times a week. Quit Prime too. I still find stuff on there that I'm willing to gamble on, and it arrives very fast but it's usually small ticky tacky items (e.g. an adapter/mount for something on my bike etc). There is a large population that's not us however, who simply want the cheapest thing that fits the bill and don't know about their FBA dishonesty.