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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.
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"
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.