Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo chamber?

Re:Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo cha... by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Monday July 03, 2023 @10:22AM (#36573306)

Crypto has been quite useful for me personally, from VPN payments to donating to locally forbidden causes.

AI only does bad things to me so far: surveillance, spam, fakes, search results poisoned, twitter and reddit closed up because of it etc.

Where is my automatic captcha solver? Where is a robot that will get me to a live person in a support call? Where is a spam filter that doesn't send all useful emails to spam? Where is a filter to hide fake reviews on amazon? Such useful things are nowhere on the horizon.

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Re:Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo cha... by atonse on Monday July 03, 2023 @10:58AM (#36573840)

As soon as Amazon starts losing money in fake reviews, you bet they will miraculously have a solution in a weekend.

Until then, you’ll get a lot of “it’s a really hard problem to solve!” Coupled with zero progress.

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Re:Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo cha... by EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK on Monday July 03, 2023 @11:51AM (#36574662)

The thing is, if there was a real useful AI, it could filter stuff on my end, independent of Amazon.

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Re:Ask HN: As people in “tech”, are we inside an AI echo cha... by n_ary on Monday July 03, 2023 @10:59AM (#36573850)

Off-topic:

> Where is a filter to hide fake reviews on Amazon?

While it[1] doesn’t hide, it can generate some insightful information about fake reviews for me.

Disclaimer: Not affiliated, only a happy person using FakeSpot since this year.

[1] https://www.fakespot.com/

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