Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by grogenaut on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @01:41AM (#44440551)

you're supposed to report this to amazon customer service not via a review. just send em a photo of the bribe and they'll verify it. yes it's not as satisfying but they can't validate your review unless you also posted a photo.

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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by fn-mote on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @02:02AM (#44440652)

Amazing BS policy, even people on Hacker Hews don’t know this approach.

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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by 01HNNWZ0MV43FF on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @03:22AM (#44441007)

An "Every Wrong Door" Policy

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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by DragonStrength on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @05:04AM (#44441516)

Well, last week Amazon customer support flow routed me to an LLM chat bot which hallucinated a 1-800 number to call which was most definitely not Amazon on the other end. That's the real usefulness of LLMs: blackhole any dissent now that your monopoly is fully operational.

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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by malfist on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:14AM (#44442781)

Internally we brag about how our LLM black hole "delights our customers"

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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by willis936 on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @08:47AM (#44443099)

It was always free to ignore customers. A thin layer of AI slop doesn't change the behavior. Competition should close the loop here, but free markets don't exist and power has marketshare has been consolidated.

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Re:Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake... by the__alchemist on Wednesday July 02, 2025 @11:40AM (#44445069)

Do you believe this?

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