Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right
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The best is when you are looking at products, and instead of showing you product information. It shows you an AI summary that's incorrect. And it has suggested questions you can ask the AI that it then answers in a nonsensical way.
Like the seller is putting in the product information, why would we need AI to regurgitate that? But even better, it's not even accurate.
Like the seller is putting in the product information, why would we need AI to regurgitate that? But even better, it's not even accurate.
> What is going on?
The exact thing predicted by all the people who have been shouting that the emperor has no clothes for a few years now.
The exact thing predicted by all the people who have been shouting that the emperor has no clothes for a few years now.
The "ask Rufus" AI feature of every Amazon product page is almost as bad. It has misguided me on product specs so many times now, I am convinced I can find a better answer manually grepping through the page and reviews.
A story that popped up in my Google Now (or whatever it's called these days) feed: "Princess Bride Still Cherished by Fans". With an image from the Fellowship of the Ring. And in tiny text at the bottom, "Generated with AI, which can make mistakes".
It's all so dispiriting: produced without thought, consumed without pleasure.
It's all so dispiriting: produced without thought, consumed without pleasure.
Recommendation on Amazon are also very bad. After I buy a phone they keep recommending to buy another phone.
Why do they even have these? Like, Frasier has been available on various streaming platforms for probably 15 years. Some human has already written presumably correct episode/season summaries.
Yes! That's exactly what set me off.
The overviews on IMDB are usually pretty reliable, too.
The overviews on IMDB are usually pretty reliable, too.
Yeah, the fact that they literally own the IMDB really makes it hilarious that they’re AI-generating any movie or TV information. I could see a startup doing that because it’s not cheap to license such a lot of data. But like, it’s right there! LOL
AI fatigue is real. I would guess about 50% of digital technical content in my YouTube feed is now NotebookLM slop.
Don't mistake me for an AI hater. I love using AI in my dev and research work. But having the same scripted low effort content being churned out en mass on every media platform is making curation such a nescessary high maintainance chore.
Don't mistake me for an AI hater. I love using AI in my dev and research work. But having the same scripted low effort content being churned out en mass on every media platform is making curation such a nescessary high maintainance chore.
Please don't abuse Ask HN by using it as a blogging platform. Per the guidelines, it is intended for asking questions of the community.
Yeah it's incredibly bad, and people are literally learning to not trust a single thing AI touches because of hallucinations like this.
I've been watching it on Prime and it's been driving me insane how drivel and nonsensical their season and episode AI overviews are.
Here is the overview for season eight:
Niles and Daphne elope in season ten! Kenny Daly is the lovable station manager, not the new owner!
What is going on? Amazon's a billion fucking dollar company. Just pay for IMBD's overviews. Oh, that's right, Amazon owns IMDB because of course they do.
I am so sick and tired of this AI slop infecting everything.