AssholeDesign

Do not buy that laptop. If they cut corners on the fucking description, who knows what else they'll cut corners on.

Send us $1300 and we will send you... something?

I recently ran into this issue with a coffee pot. I was specifically hunting for a coffee pot with an adjustable temperature warmer. Ordered one that specifically stated that in the description, only to receive a coffee pot that did not have that feature. Checked the model number on the box versus the listing, and it's the same. Then I saw the fine print: we are not responsible for inaccurate product information.

Sales bs has been totally disconnected from actual specs for a long time. Like shopping for hardware a few years ago, I could not rely on any sales garbage for info. I only looked for verifiable model numbers and then looked them up on linux-hardware.org because those scans list everything the Linux kernel discovered.

Amazon’s “Starfish” project is scraping the net for small businesses and posting their products on Amazon, with AI generated information.

Imagine getting a sale from a storefront you didn’t consent to being listed on, with an inaccurate description of your product.

What's keeping them from checking the info before publishing it, though?

Oh, right. Greed.

"windows 11" "smooth computing experience" yep that's AI alright.

Was just arguing about the usefulness of AI as a tool with someone on here, and he said that AI consistently making mistakes is a great way to improve critical thinking skills, because it challenges you to figure it out on your own after AI fails.

So what I'm saying is, that was an absolute rubbish take, and shit like this is going to be the downfall of the internet. The internet was such a wonderful, useful tool, and now look at how they massacred my boy 😞

Brilliant 😂

It's the post truth world so many wanted.

I recently tried asking Amazon's AI a simple question about a product that had hundreds of reviews. It was a cheap thing, and I admit I was too lazy to verify the info so I went with what the AI said and bought it, and guess what the AI was just completely wrong and now Amazon is paying for me to ship it back.

There's almost as many words in the disclaimer than the generated description!

You cunts gotta get used to name and shaming instead of just posting and forgetting

If you can't give me exact, accurate details about your own fucking product, then I will not be buying your product. If it even actually exists, which I would now be doubtful of.

They need to be held accountable for every single issue until they realize AI is not the way.

we strive to deliver accurate information

🤔 what do they think "strive" means?

Online shopping just became gacha

Truth in advertising was killed off in the 80's.. They can basically say whatever they want now and little ever gets done.

That's just illegal in many countries for a start

Do they know what "strive" means?

I've got a bridge to sell. It's about yay high and goes all the way across. It is colored #9aae07.

LLMs are a disease.

I'm like 95% sure a 360 degree hinge isn't even possible, without the thing connected to that hinge being paper thin.

I do not get it, how much effort would a product description possibly be to instead use ai? This is not a one off, even before these llm ai systems a lot of instruction manuals in cheap crap you buy were written by machines, very badly.

They are presumably paying people to be executives and board members and managers, but they can't be bothered to pay someone a few hours to write a product description accurately? We have all the wrong people in charge in this country. Because they can not even write an accurate product description they chose to.

Looks like you didn't just save 450, you saved a full 1300 by not buying it from them

I hope somebody sues them for an unreasonable amount of money, and then wins even more - enough to get the attention of other companies that are considering this.

Laziness/overenthusiastic cost cutting is NOT an excuse for false advertising.

The idea that a company could sell anything while giving out inaccurate information about the product up-front strikes me as utterly bizarre and unimaginable. at least in germany that would be considered "fraud" and definitely you'd have a right to get your money back.

Name and shame. Send the link so we can blast this bullshit.

In case anyone was wondering, it's Best Buy

Eh, nothing new. For the past few years I’ve had to shop though manufacturer spec pages anyway.

Retailers know most shoppers aren’t careful, though.