Cookware company includes artificial customer prompts in website • Hacker News Board

Re: Cookware company includes artificial customer prompts in website

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Post by MathMonkeyMan » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 3:09 PM UTC

Pages with this format -- let's call them marketing pages -- have always seemed to me a mix of 10% buzzword checklist and 90% Lorem ipsum. You scroll endlessly and there's just no content at all. Even programmer-focused project pages do this.

Now the Lorem ipsum is computer generated English instead of rote Latin, that's all.

Re: Cookware company includes artificial customer prompts in website

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Post by johngladtj » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 3:09 PM UTC

This sounds like it would give rise to a class action fraud claim by any customers that purchased these products based on these reviews.

Re: Cookware company includes artificial customer prompts in website

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Post by fweimer » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 3:09 PM UTC

yungporko wrote: post #8

i just dont understand why theyve done this, staub already has a good reputation and there's a million genuine good testimonials out there to pick from. i definitely respect them a lot less now lol.

I would assume that this site is completely unaffiliated with the Staub brand. Their official web site is here: https://www.zwilling.com/us/staub/

Re: Cookware company includes artificial customer prompts in website

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Post by re5i5tor » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 3:09 PM UTC

xoac wrote: post #4

Tragic that whoever made it didn’t even read what they generated. They make nice cookware though…

Seconded. We love their stuff.

Re: Cookware company includes artificial customer prompts in website

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Post by unglaublich » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 3:10 PM UTC

kaeruct wrote: post #7

The customer headshots also look eerily AI generated

It's so obvious, I'm assuming they should have been used as placeholders but someone forgot to replace them.

Re: Cookware company includes artificial customer prompts in website

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Post by prepend » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 3:10 PM UTC

yungporko wrote: post #8

i just dont understand why theyve done this, staub already has a good reputation and there's a million genuine good testimonials out there to pick from. i definitely respect them a lot less now lol.

Collecting real testimonials requires more work than putting a prompt into ChatGPT. Seems like a simple case of bad laziness.

Re: Cookware company includes artificial customer prompts in website

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Post by khanan » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 3:11 PM UTC

Oh my god... Even the photographs are AI-generated: https://thestaub.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/st2.png (backup-link if they take it down: https://i.vgy.me/0MGC1u.jpg)

Re: Cookware company includes artificial customer prompts in website

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Post by prepend » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 3:11 PM UTC

xoac wrote: post #4

Tragic that whoever made it didn’t even read what they generated. They make nice cookware though…

It is funny when people are just mindlessly cutting and pasting and there’s no QA or even reading their input.

In my day, I would at least read through everything my code had to produce and it was always funny to see the stuff that the BAs and QAs left in there. But I didn’t want my site to look stupid.

Re: Cookware company includes artificial customer prompts in website

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 3:12 PM UTC

yungporko wrote: post #8

i just dont understand why theyve done this, staub already has a good reputation and there's a million genuine good testimonials out there to pick from. i definitely respect them a lot less now lol.

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Re: Cookware company includes artificial customer prompts in website

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Post by russfrank » Sat, Aug 10, 2024, 3:12 PM UTC

I don't think this is actually created by the company that owns the brand, Zwilling J.A. Henckels. I think someone managed to get this domain and generated this page (rather quickly, it looks like) to try and make money via Amazon affiliate links. Interesting new strategy.