Amazon is crawling with travel guides written by AI -- vague, crappy, and pushed up in search results by astroturfed fake five-star reviews: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/travel/amazon-guidebooks-artificial-intelligence.html?unlocked_article_code=Gmcb6fkRXSAX7JUdbTpFyhH1lSBWBcI0RuiXgcku3gVTdQV7s_SPvl1tKw76F_txTehAmHdU0bZ3PUoPyH0h-dybeb8_bGL7UzysZynt-SFcx9yByC4wr37_65cVodjr_Z-sRcqUfioeOsUAKJpEECejhG2SlL4jPCoaBG8PFnu_YLKDXA0hkzvhrJnGuD5kw59N8Bz7T7D7UOeJXLkowJnnoB6IDt6bHn6XiBvlH--t6M_9xmGCkNlYdtiiScdbS3ebGG5C3xKkCxwacaT96yLi9NK5dx9YHwhHSPdoVJPqslvVGAwQFvpSQvDvgHZGOFxW09EeUVAHYZl6uI-aSYS0_UfYhcXjDi6J2-M1oFlpWg&smid=url-share
That's a "gift" link so you don't need to be a New York Times subscriber to read it
It's a great investigation, and highlights the real problem, which is ...
... unsurprisingly by now, Amazon seemingly does little-to-nothing to stop this
The site is just soiled top to bottom with fake crap in every category
@clive the entire amazon experience is so openly hostile other than the incredible logistics backend - if someone else can send things to my door without hassle, they’ll have my money instantly.
Yep — that logistics ability is basically keeping it in business now
@clive @jfreebo As if next-day delivery is so important. I suspect in at least 95% of all cases, a week-long delivery would be perfectly sufficient.
In fact, I've recently had a case where due to my bad planning, I've had to depend on next day delivery. Amazon failed to deliver within two days and someone very close to my wife had to go on their honeymoon journey without the present that was bought especially for this honeymoon journey.
@mapto @jfreebo
Yep -- one cannot *rely* on Amazon for next-day delivery ... it fails in enough cases to be considered not terribly rock solid