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Detect fraudulent and counterfeit eBay Sellers using AI
(saoudkhalifah.com)
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6y ago
FYI: "H.K. received fees for providing consultant services to Tchibo GmbH. K.K. and S.M. reported no conflicts of interest." One of the main authors was compensated by the largest coffee retailer in Germany.
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Fakespot Guardian – Protect yourself from fraudulent 3rd party sellers on Amazon
(saoudkhalifah.com)
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6y ago
Thank you for being a Fakespot user. I thought I'd bring in some perspective to your question. Your observation of the preponderance of unreliable reviews on Amazon matches what we see across the board. Unfortunately, ever since Amazon
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7y ago
We have been bootstrapped and funded by institutional investors that allows us to function freely from being in the "unnamed but big review website starting with Y" business model. Ethically speaking, I personally would never supp
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And from our internal research at Fakespot, we concur. The positivity bias from influenced reviews such as the Vine review program and multitudes others is rampant. Our ML based algorithms will penalize any biased reviews and show case them
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7y ago
Hi, Saoud from Fakespot here. My co-founders and I all got scammed and duped by fake reviews and Fakespot was built to bring back trust and transparency to the e-commerce experience (and others). We have a strict policy to remain neutral in
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We'd love to add support for German. We'd need a lot of retraining of our models to support the language however, it is in our road map!
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Fakespot CTO here. Care to elaborate on your lack of trust in Fakespot? Just curious.
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Fakespot CTO here. That's a good observation. Our engines utilize NLP heavily conjoined with proprietary ML models to detect influenced reviews that basic statistical analysis will never (or with low levels of success) be able to infer