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.
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Instruction manuals for all sorts of cheap chinese made crap are written by machines, there are all sorts of errors and weird wordings in it too. It's been like that for at least ten years, before so called ai was released to the public.
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Average Amazon experience these days (stop buying from them, enshitification is strongly progressed there)
It’s often pricey now, too.
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Of course it’s BestBuy….
Here's my description: "This laptop costs at least $1,300 and is pretty expensive"
ChatGPT, generate me some images matching this description I can use for an Ebay listing
Gee, sounds a lot like you’re trying to boycot humans at your company… right back at ya assholes.
To anyone who's stuck on doing product descriptions and decide to use AI - have you heard of improv?
Yes and?
So glad I did not try and get that English degree
I'll use ChatGPT to not buy it.
Joke’s on you, ChatGPT bought it in the background while showing you a very NSFW ad. That’ll be $200 please.
Im not surprised that Samsung would cut every possible corner on their absurdly expensive laptop
Artificial Imbecility.