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That's crazy lol, how do the people who make these not think about what they're putting in?
by orenlindsey 3y ago
That's crazy lol, how do the people who make these not think about what they're putting in?
- daniel_reetz 3y agoRoughly speaking, they're not people and not thinking.
- redcobra762 3y agoThat's some hateful, xenophobic shit my dude.
- pierat 3y agoI think the point is so much of this is automated, that there really is nobody at the helm. Its not hateful to say a LLM and pile-o-scripts is not human. And piles of scripts definitely don't "think".
- daniel_reetz 3y agoYeah, I was referring to machines/software.
- cactus_joe 3y agoI would hazard a guess that these are not real products - that the seller is a scammer, a lazy one at that.
- orenlindsey 3y agoOr, they're just drop-shipping stuff from China and they don't speak English so they use an AI to create a title.
- bombcar 3y agoThis is exactly it. There's been tons of these for years on Amazon now, and the AI feature is just another tool to make it easier.
- alecsm 3y agoThey use automation tools to sell/resell tons of Chinese products. From what I've seen they're interested in flooding the market with their stuff, everything else is secondary.
- reactordev 3y agoThey don’t speak english. Or it’s via their automated supply chain adding in “AI” features nobody asked for. We don’t need a model to say Black Dresser. However, providing a service that says “give me your inventory and we’ll list it on Amazon” is probably what’s at play here. Random brand name, AI generated description, midjourney images, real cash sales, no goods shipped.
- Sharlin 3y agoHow quaint of you to assume these are done by people.
- Maken 3y agoProbably no real human in the loop. This is a bot scrapping Chinese retailers and automatically creating several Amazon "sellers", with descriptions generated from whatever photos the retailer page had. The products are likely shipped either from China or bought in bulk and kept in a subcontracted storage somewhere in USA. It doesn't matter is 90% of the "sellers" end being flagged and deleted, they can create thousands more and eventually someone will buy their crap. This pollutes the marketplace to the point where I gave up trying to find any real product on it, but Amazon actually encourages this behavior. They automatically label and classify "products" in their store because the titles, descriptions and tags from Chinese resellers are abysmal and discoverability would be impossible otherwise.