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Re: I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy

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Post by bluGill »

danjoredd wrote: post #214
silisili wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd really like a more 'curated' or vetted everything store. I don't need to see 40 of the same exact item rebranded into various English horrors. Walmart seems most primed to do this, barring third party sales. Or Sears, if they ever had a miraculous turnaround to their old days.

I wish Sears sold do-it-yourself-houses again like they did in the 1920s. That would be very cool of them.

If you go to a real lumber yard - the type of places the pros go - they will look at any blueprint print and prepare you the kit. Prices are better than Home Depot after you account for free delivery and they pick up your returns.

The kit won't include plumbing, HVAC, electric... so it isn't 100% what Sears did in the 1910s, but it is actually pretty close.

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Post by berniedurfee »

edgyquant wrote: post #163
redcobra762 wrote: post #150

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As someone who uses Amazon regularly, we live in different worlds. My experience is pleasant and straightforward; I get what I want and it arrives quickly.

Yeah we must. Nothing I but from Amazon is what I expect and top that off with it arrives late despite me paying for prime. I ordered a blender last week that doesn’t even blend, which I only realized after I had loaded it up with stuff to make a smoothie. When things show up and actually are what I expect based off of the image and they work right it is a rare surprise.

Same. Amazon used to be great. But just about everything I receive now is clearly a hastily reboxed return (including shoes and earbuds) or garbage.

I’ve been more and more ordering elsewhere. I order direct from the manufacturer when I can.

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Post by nabilhat »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #35

Easy fix since ChatGPT always apologises for not complying: any description or title containing the word "sorry" gets flagged for human oversight. Still orders of magnitude faster than writing all your own spam texts.

Except when it doesn't:

https://www.amazon.com/FOPEAS-Language-Context-referring-Inf...

The seller account's entire product list is a stream of scraped images with AI-nglish descriptions slapped on by autopilot. If you can cast thousands of lines for free and you know the ranger isn't looking, you don't need good bait to catch fish.

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Post by sbarre »

FerretFred wrote: post #237
silisili wrote: post #149

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd really like a more 'curated' or vetted everything store. I don't need to see 40 of the same exact item rebranded into various English horrors. Walmart seems most primed to do this, barring third party sales. Or Sears, if they ever had a miraculous turnaround to their old days.

Rebranded .. I'm getting really annoyed with the same product, different prices, different brand names apparently generated by some China-based anagram generator

But.. that's how a lot of products have always worked.

I think the difference is that before a lot of white-label product factories would cut territory-based deals with resellers, so in (for example) the US, that widget is called "Acme Widget" but in France that exact same widget is called "Le Widget Magnifique".

Around the world there might be 100+ companies selling that same product but typically not competing with each other because they would each have exclusive markets.

But now with these global marketplaces, that same approach feels weird exactly because you can suddenly see the same exact products being sold under different names, and it's a lot easier for any random business to white-label a product and reach a global audience.

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Post by Paul-Craft »

123pie123 wrote: post #165
TillE wrote: post #144

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They're fine at selling stuff, they're absolutely horrendous at being a place to search for a product if you don't know exactly what you're looking for. The solution is just to look for third-party specialist review sites who know what they're talking about.

Amazons search is so bad that I typically use google/ddg to search their site for products

That makes it hard to filter though, doesn't it? I usually only bother looking at products with a 4 star and up rating.

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Post by windowlessmonad »

psnehanshu wrote: post #283

What is this? I don't understand. Currently it just leads to a "not found" page.

The product had that text as its title. Another one shows: "khalery [Apologies but I'm Unable to Assist with This Request it goes Against OpenAI use Policy and Encourages unethical Behavior-Black"

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Post by kevindamm »

AlecSchueler wrote: post #35

Easy fix since ChatGPT always apologises for not complying: any description or title containing the word "sorry" gets flagged for human oversight. Still orders of magnitude faster than writing all your own spam texts.

next up, retailers find out that copies of the board game Sorry! are being autodeclined. The human review that should have caught it was so backlogged that there is a roughly 1/3 chance of it timing out in the queue and the review task being discarded.

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Post by szundi »

Reason077 wrote: post #245
moolcool wrote: post #132

Using Amazon for shopping is terrible, borderline unusable in 2024. They're hard to compete with because they're giant and have an amazing logistics network, but it also seems like there's a big vacuum in the market for an "everything store" that's actually good.

The worst thing for me is how the Amazon search algorithm seems to want to show you everything but the item you searched for. In many categories, even when explicitly searching for brand and model names, you’ll get dozens of off-brand substitutions and even random unrelated products appearing above it in the search results. Occasionally I’ve even noticed products that are available for sale (if you click on a direct…

My terrible suspicion is that these algos are good for the majority of people in the sense that they are prone to manipulation and buy these inferior borderline fraud products all the time, so the algo finds its target function results and optimize for these.

This is what we don’t seem to accept. Enshittification.

Also shipping and return policy is so convenient, that even the grumbling people are eating this up.

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Post by mst »

jprete wrote: post #223
dangus wrote: post #222

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Sometimes curation just means higher prices. My local Best Buy curates electronics, but none of them are cheaper than the hundreds of additional brands you can find on Amazon. You can’t get a $50 WiFi 6 access point at Best Buy, but you can find that on Amazon. I think what you are describing is Walmart or Target but with filters applied to turn off third party sellers. As an aside, what’s interesting about Amazon is…

It's not about the price, it's about getting a more trustworthy device.

I've been hearing a lot of complaints of later that amazon has also become a complete crapshoot, primarily from .us based friends.

I'm in .uk and have yet to have a problem (there was one sneakily labeled listing but the keyword they'd stuffed in wasn't one I understood and the price and product were both what I wanted/expected so -I- wasn't disadvantaged by that listing at least).

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