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
You cunts gotta get used to name and shaming instead of just posting and forgetting
bUt iF I NaMe tHeM ThEn tHaTs aDvErTiSiNg!!!
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.
In case anyone was wondering, it's Best Buy
of course it is.
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?
Do not buy that laptop. If they cut corners on the fucking description, who knows what else they'll cut corners on.
I literally cannot think of the last time I saw a Samsung (or Sony for that matter) laptop in the wild.
How'd you know it was Samsung? Honestly I don't know if I've ever seen a Samsung laptop even through a screen
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
Truth in advertising was killed off in the 80's.. They can basically say whatever they want now and little ever gets done.
THE NEW BEST PRODUCT, BEST VALUE, RECOMMENDED BY 10 BILLION BLUE WHALES, STREAK FREE, LASTS up to 10 MONTHS if never touched
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)
I recently ran into this issue with a coffee pot. I was specifically hunting for a coffee pot with an adjustable temperature warmer. Ordered one that specifically stated that in the description, only to receive a coffee pot that did not have that feature. Checked the model number on the box versus the listing, and it's the same. Then I saw the fine print: we are not responsible for inaccurate product information.
They are absolutely responsible for that, fuck em
Too fucking right, send the fucker back
we are not responsible for inaccurate product information.
I have half a packet of mints in my car. Going to put them up on eBay and sell them as immortality drugs. Well see how that works out.
What country? In many, this is straight up false advertising and you're entitled to a refund.
At their expense for shipping, no less. Nothing that a charge back won't fix - with all the evidence ready to go) https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/problem-with-a-product-or-service-you-bought/repair-replace-refund-cancel
Here's my description: "This laptop costs at least $1,300 and is pretty expensive"
ChatGPT, generate me some images matching this description I can use for an Ebay listing
Name and shame. Send the link so we can blast this bullshit.
What's keeping them from checking the info before publishing it, though?
Oh, right. Greed.
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).
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.
Sales bs has been totally disconnected from actual specs for a long time. Like shopping for hardware a few years ago, I could not rely on any sales garbage for info. I only looked for verifiable model numbers and then looked them up on linux-hardware.org because those scans list everything the Linux kernel discovered.
To anyone who's stuck on doing product descriptions and decide to use AI - have you heard of improv?
Yes and?
So glad I did not try and get that English degree
Smooth, everyday computing experience.
They're making windows 11 sound like cigarettes. They also advertised about "smooth drags".
Looks like you didn't just save 450, you saved a full 1300 by not buying it from them
Gee, sounds a lot like you’re trying to boycot humans at your company… right back at ya assholes.
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.