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It just takes way longer to figure out whether a product is good/bad than it did 10 years ago
Exactly.
On Amazon, I need to go at least a couple pages in to get past the “curated” comments or whatever to see legitimate reviews. I try to sample a dozen or so starting from at least a couple pages in to see what the trends are (and no, I don’t trust the AI crap Amazon shows), and I’ll read through some 2-star reviews as well (1-star reviews seem to mostly be complaints about shipping or defective products, which may not be relevant).
ai llm catch up
We’ll just have to go back to how we used to do things: word of mouth. In the modern age, social media can absolutely help, provided you trust the author. I have some YouTube channels I trust, some websites that haven’t yet been overtaken by AI nonsense, etc. And the last option we have is returning bad products, and most companies seem to have automated returns to the point where you don’t really need a good reason to return something, it’s generally cheaper for them to accept the return than to piss off their customers.
Exactly.
On Amazon, I need to go at least a couple pages in to get past the “curated” comments or whatever to see legitimate reviews. I try to sample a dozen or so starting from at least a couple pages in to see what the trends are (and no, I don’t trust the AI crap Amazon shows), and I’ll read through some 2-star reviews as well (1-star reviews seem to mostly be complaints about shipping or defective products, which may not be relevant).
We’ll just have to go back to how we used to do things: word of mouth. In the modern age, social media can absolutely help, provided you trust the author. I have some YouTube channels I trust, some websites that haven’t yet been overtaken by AI nonsense, etc. And the last option we have is returning bad products, and most companies seem to have automated returns to the point where you don’t really need a good reason to return something, it’s generally cheaper for them to accept the return than to piss off their customers.