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Emily M. Bender (she/her)

This is funny, but also actually a really bad sign for general enshittification of the web. The most alarming detail here is that Amazon is actually promoting the use of LLMs to create fake ad copy.

arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/laz

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Emily M. Bender (she/her)

I'd love to see the creation of platforms that require authenticity --- no synthetic media. The actual words + art of actual people only.

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Emily M. Bender (she/her)

Sometimes I get into arguments with people who say "But what about using grammar checkers/spell checkers"? We had both of those before LLMs were used to synthesize text, and they worked well enough, thank you.

ROTOPE~1 :yell:

@emilymbender it's really great that Amazon does not have the technological wherewithal to see such a pattern of submissions, and do a single thing about it.

Emily M. Bender (she/her)

@rotopenguin Or alternatively: they aren't incentivized to do a single thing about it.

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@emilymbender I'm pretty happy to let my Amazon Prime membership expire in a month. It's been getting worse and worse, and with the ads in videos, ongoing failure to screen bad actors in their marketplace, and now this... yeah, I'm done.

cuan_knaggs

@emilymbender on the other hand it's quite handy that they're just telling on themselves now. makes them easier to block

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