This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
This cannot possibly hold up in court. You cant just advertise a product and then be like "*but actually we might be lying about some or all of these things"??? What the fuck are you selling then
So glad I did not try and get that English degree
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 😞
It went to shit when "the internet" became 4-6 biggest web services, this is just the final nail in coffin.
Truth in advertising was killed off in the 80's.. They can basically say whatever they want now and little ever gets done.
LLMs are a disease.
I've got a bridge to sell. It's about yay high and goes all the way across. It is colored #9aae07.
Sorry, that color is copyrighted by Pantone, please cease and desist.
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.
how much effort would a product description possibly be to instead use ai
Probably 15-30 minutes vs a couple seconds. (I know, it would bankrupt anyone)
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.
we strive to deliver accurate information
🤔 what do they think "strive" means?
Strive (v): To try, a little bit, sometimes, if we feel like it
Name and shame. Send the link so we can blast this bullshit.
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.
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.
Gee, sounds a lot like you’re trying to boycot humans at your company… right back at ya assholes.
Imagine getting a sale from a storefront you didn’t consent to being listed on, with an inaccurate description of your product.
Didn't Uber eats do this same thing with small restaurants?
"windows 11" "smooth computing experience" yep that's AI alright.
i would argue it's not intellligent at all
Smoothbrain computing experience
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.
Fine until manufacturers start doing it too
They need to be held accountable for every single issue until they realize AI is not the way.
I mean, this kind of missing why AI is so favoured by capitalists despite its obvious unsustainability. AI is already extremely overvaluated for a number of reasons, but its speculative ability to expand corporate ownership of consumer computing while eliminating/devaluing human labour created a potentially infinite vector of growth in a stagnating industry. Because all of these companies invested so heavily into this, largely in a scramble over intellectual property, they were able to realize numbers for this speculative value. Since immaterial financialization is the only kind of growth in a system that is so imcompatible with material reality, these companies have no other option but to adopt the technology, as to deny it would mean that they are not following a profitable vector of growth.
It's a very perfect situation to demonstrate exactly why capitalism is an unsustainable system. Infinite growth and profit imperatives literally makes it impossible to make effective decisions.
"Held accountable" doesn't mean anything wuthin this system, as the legal framework is designed to the interests of capital. They will not choose to stop because neoliberal politics and economic have constructed the state as a viable vector of revenue and risk absorption should any of these gambles fail (especially after the '08 recession).
Companies have to maximize their revenue by their own bylaws and the law as a result. Yet in doing things like outsourcing manufacturing, or going over to ai, they destroy the economy that they feed off of. Removing workers getting paychecks that are buying their stuff. None can or indeed would not replace workers if they can make a short-term buck, even as doing that will send the economy into a doom spiral and make us all poorer.
Yes, these are all good examples of how these imperatives manifest in law and why they are so unsustainable. Capitalism is not capable of long-term planning because of this, it depends on an immaterial world to exist and therefore does not consider the reality of the world it exists in.
When they say it can do jobs, they aren't actually claiming that it can, what they're saying is that they can argue that it can, and that creates its own value. They've fired and rehired people, done layoffs, cut wages, cut salary and contract benefits; all of this makes labour cheaper, which validates that value and raises the speculative value.
With accountability I mean I will send everything back if the description doesn't match the product I bought. And as I live in the European Union, I will be getting my money back.
I'm afraid the EU is also a capitalist system my guy. Consumer protections are nice, but have not prevented the issues I described above.
The revolution will take care of that.
Skippin a few steps there. Very Gowron strat.
Glory to the democratically elected government that cares for the people and keeps the leeches in check*.
*not the empire
Average Amazon experience these days (stop buying from them, enshitification is strongly progressed there)
It’s often pricey now, too.
I try but I semi frequently buy things that are obnoxiously niche, VGA to HDMI connector being the last one. But also I probably buy one or two things a year at most so there's that.
Looks like you didn't just save 450, you saved a full 1300 by not buying it from them