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On the Target web site tonight I was looking at a monitor stand and the Q&A section has some questions written and answered by Target's AI so as to seed the sec
by add-sub-mul-div 1y ago
On the Target web site tonight I was looking at a monitor stand and the Q&A section has some questions written and answered by Target's AI so as to seed the section with content.
One of the AI questions is, "What is the weight capacity of the monitor stand?" and the answer is, "The monitor stand is designed to support and elevate a computer monitor, ensuring stability."
What are we even doing here? Will anyone ever be accountable for all this stupidity that all of us see every day?
- BobbyTables2 1y agoWell, the developer implementing it got to meet some goals and be eligible for a piece of bonus. The manager can announce his team developed the requested feature… The executive can proclaim how they’ve embraced AI and the digital transformation… And now the paper towel companies can prosper from all the extra vomiting…
- Fade_Dance 1y agoTarget literally just let 1800 people go, so they probably have an internal initiative to fill the gap with... That.
- smcin 1y agoSure, but in my experience of online shopping, even garbage pretend-customer Q&A as opposed to no Q&A make it look like the product is getting more views, purchases reviews and comments. These days a product with no Q&A at all looks dubious.
- malfist 1y agoAmazon ripped out the Q&A for products to replace with AI. I don't know where they think they're going to get answers for new products from, because you can't ask or answer questions anymore. Only get vague, possible hallucinated summaries from historical Q&A or reviews. I asked it what the difference between the standard and the pro version of a dehydrator was and it told me about the pixel counts and refresh rates. The pro dehydrator was apparently for gamers. The actual differences were the door hinge and the tray material (chromed steel vs stainless steel)