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Firefox will have a built-in ‘fake reviews detector’ — Amazon is in trouble (mashable.com)

submitted 1 year ago by bathalumang_peppa to c/technology

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[–] ptrckstr 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

And so it begins, the marketing world has got its claws in AI.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I mean, Fakespot already does the same thing. They rate the product based on the quality of reviews (whether or not they're fake).

[–] ptrckstr 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah sorry, I wasn't aware the AI wars already spread into marketing-land

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's not even just AI. It's also real people being paid to leave fake reviews.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Plenty of fake reviews are AI written now too. For a while you could go on any product page and Ctrl+F for "as a large language model" and spot several copy/pasted reviews with no proofreading that out themselves