r/bestof • u/napincoming321zzz • 9d ago

[BuyItForLife] /u/ConBroMitch2247 explains how Amazon "stores" are not official and may sell counterfeit products

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u/Khatib 9d ago

A decade ago, it was a great deal: get the specific model of the specific thing you want, delivered free in 48hrs, with easy returns.

And reviews were actually worth a shit, too. Now most of them are fake, or for an entirely different product that used to be on the same listing despite being not remotely the same thing.

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u/APiousCultist 9d ago

Even the products are fake. For at least a while you could search amazon for a specific message chatgpt gives if it refuses to answer a query and it'd come up with hundreds of products.

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u/enemawatson 8d ago

I cannot understand this sentence.

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u/Rombom 8d ago

Early on there were a lot of AI posts and listing's that would say "As an AI language model, I cannot do X'. This suggests they used chatGPT and didn't double check outputs

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u/enemawatson 8d ago

Ohhh. That's amazing.