Amazon has been listing products with the title, ‘I’m sorry, I cannot fulfil this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy’::Products have appeared on the platform with odd titles that are seemingly related to OpenAI’s usage policy.
Amazon is a marketplace, anyone can create a store and put up items. It’s not really Amazon’s fault that people have BS listings. It’s not reasonable to human-vet every listing. Maybe they could have a better reporting system; idk.
I’ll push back on this part. They can vet just fine by raising the barrier to entry a bit. They’d have fewer products. There’d be three USB cable vendors instead of 500. That would be OK.
Leaning into Sturgeon’s Law (“90% of everything is crap”) can be OK in some circumstances. Leave all the gates wide open and let anyone in. Steam is a good example; I find most of my games by word of mouth, and if some shithole asset flipper wants to toss their game up there, I will probably never see it until Steph Sterling points it out.
I don’t think that can work for Amazon. It’s too much and fraud is rampant.
I disagree. I’d rather have 500 choices and let the consumer choose than a triopoly on my poor USB cables.
Edit: Maybe the ranking system needs more work. Personally I like seeing all and making choices. Though some may just want above board picks.
Reminds me of code. Too bad ya can’t just regex search combined with star ratings and some secret sauce to get rid of what the viewer thinks of as crap.
