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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 Scoundreller »

theodric wrote: post #475
Reason077 wrote: post #245

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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…

I'm going to assume you're in the USA, which may be incorrect. I live in the third world, in Amazon's estimation-- Switzerland, Ireland, the Netherlands. If I search for something, there's a better-than-not chance that it will explicitly say in the search results under the item "ships to [Switzerland]," but when I click the item, I get "sorry, this item does not ship to your location" and I can't order it. It makes s…

> I may have single-handedly kept eBay.com in the black between 2005-2016

Naw, that's one of eBay's strong points. Lots of ex-US business from int'l people willing to sell to others internationally. Or just breaking tariffs/barriers/price discrimination/parallel imports.

I just never understood most American seller's resistance to selling internationally, but worked out in my favour as a seller. I just charged a bit more than cost for shipping and it made up for any losses + inventory moved faster.

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

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Post by d0gsg0w00f »

yunwal wrote: post #333
dumbfounder wrote: post #282

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Amazon is just SO EASY though. It's a vortex I can't escape. I tried ordering a Nintendo Switch from Walmart for my son's birthday. 3 days they told me. It didn't even ship. The website said I could "try" to cancel the order. "Try" I did, and that try failed. I then waited a few weeks and had to call them up and they said oh we will just mark it as lost in transit. Oh yeah, that sounds perfect. They wasted my time, t…

I’m shocked that people are having good experiences with Amazon delivery in 2023. For me, 2-day delivery means it’ll get here in a week or 2. And forget about customer service that can actually solve my issue. I want whatever program you’re on

Anecdotally, I live in the Atlanta metro and Prime usually means 2-3 days. No issues with counterfeits or busted packages. All in all a positive experience 100% of the time.

We probably order 2-10 items per week and never return anything. I bet we're the perfect customer.

We also do Target pickups once every two weeks for bulky items.

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

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Post by cyanydeez »

pompino wrote: post #334
cyanydeez wrote: post #255

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the problem is capitalism necessitates enshittification. you aren't getting a contender as long as the regulations are abhorrently lax about both the workers and the sellers. along with consumer rights. there just is no economic incentive to improve but rather dig the moat.

(1) Expand network of friends/family. (2) Buy only when you get a recommendation from friends/family. (3) profit? :) Asking the government to create regulations for product quality just means that the lobbyists who actually write those regulations are going to fuck you over yet again.

that's a nice quaint small town logic. we are talking about millions of lives across many industries.

government is the family no matter how you personally emotionally identify it.

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

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Post by xnx »

r9295 wrote: post #454
Reason077 wrote: post #245

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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…

I've had similar experiences with the Google Play Store. For example, if I search for "Instagram" verbatim, my first result is TikTok.

I could not reproduce this result on desktop or Android. Any additional details to the steps you took?

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

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Post by d0gsg0w00f »

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.

Sorry, "Sorry!" the board game. Your name contains invalid characters.

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

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Post by Scoundreller »

nerdponx wrote: post #93
avalys wrote: post #54

Ah, FOPEAS, that distinguished brand of kitchen counter drawers renowned throughout the world.

I love my FOPEAS counters! I got them for free in exchange for my honest review. I haven't assembled them yet, but my cat loves to sit on the box. 5 stars!

"received quickly, looks good, haven't tried yet" were always concerning reviews on ahem, darker markets. You always wondered if they tried it and died so they couldn't come back to update their review, but reviews like that were rampant.

And I don't think the FTC was up to the marketplace's neck, they were actually honest and genuine reviews someone took the time out of their day to submit.

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

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Post by dr_dshiv »

Retric wrote: post #145
dr_dshiv wrote: post #124

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100% why is that perspective so rare?

Because when an employee uses an LLM for their job they take responsibility / validate as they risk getting fired. However, when an organization uses an LLM they generally setup a system without anyone validating the output. That’s an attempt to delegate responsibility to an incompetent system and thus inherently flawed.

Organizations don’t do that, employees do?

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Post by pompino »

cyanydeez wrote: post #503
pompino wrote: post #334

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(1) Expand network of friends/family. (2) Buy only when you get a recommendation from friends/family. (3) profit? :) Asking the government to create regulations for product quality just means that the lobbyists who actually write those regulations are going to fuck you over yet again.

that's a nice quaint small town logic. we are talking about millions of lives across many industries. government is the family no matter how you personally emotionally identify it.

In a democracy you have to make a case for it. I don't want the government spending tax dollars so they can recommend which sneakers or USB power adapter I can buy. Curation of a marketplace is not an essential service by any stretch of the imagination.

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

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Post by iknowstuff »

input_sh wrote: post #335
nitwit005 wrote: post #130

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I brought up translation as a risk with a friend. If you pay someone for a translation these days, there is a chance they will just feed it to some AI to cut costs. You'll have no way to validate yourself if you don't speak the language.

Do you usually just pick a person at random when hiring or do you spend some effort looking into their qualifications and references? How's your hypothetical any different now than it would've been in the past 15 or so years of Google Translate's existence?

Google translate is nowhere near as good as GPT4 at translation. Especially when given additional context and style instructions.
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