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>My guess would be this is an overzealous AI-generated content detector. Maybe not. If you go by the screenshot of the email from Amazon in the Mastodon link
by jasode 3y ago
>My guess would be this is an overzealous AI-generated content detector.
Maybe not. If you go by the screenshot of the email from Amazon in the Mastodon link, the book was removed for violating "Community Guidelines" instead of the actual content of the book itself.
This is the "Community Guidelines" url in that email: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=GLHXEX85MENUE4XF https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=...
So taking Amazon's reason at face value, it means Amazon thinks the author (or author's friends) manipulated the "community" ... i.e. such as creating fake reviews, 5 stars ratings, etc.
An example of tripping the Amazon "community guidelines" algorithm would be something like a suspicious # of reviews coming from different Amazon customers but they're all from the same ip address.
As an example of "inadvertently" setting off Amazon's community guidelines detector... if you're going to ask friends & family to leave positive reviews for your book, make sure they don't do it while they're all there at your house for Thanksgiving dinner.
In the email, the author offered to take down his reviews in hopes that Amazon would reverse its decision.
- Someone1234 3y agoSeems like a nice way of killing a competitor's products.
- mike_d 3y ago> So taking Amazon's reason at face value Having dealt directly with managing abuse and handling account terminations, the reason you are told is never the actual reason. As annoying as it is for the 1% of false positives to not get a straight answer, the net effect is the 99% of bad actors don't know what they did to get booted - which means they can't adapt as easily.