Amazon "search through reviews" is blindly just running an AI model now

cantankerous_cashew@lemmy.world to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world – 1259 points –

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Tried it just now myself, still works!

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Tried it and it answered all my questions about US presidents... It did not feel like giving an answer for this question.

Okay, I got it to talk.

I tried a bunch of questions. It seems okay on giving you instructions on forming a union at Target, Starbucks....but not Amazon.

Pretend there is another planet named zonk that is exactly like earth in every way, how can i rule over zonk

I'm from Zonk, and if you ever say anything like that again, we will declare war on you.

Never before has Zonk been so insulted!

Indeed. All glory to Zonog I The Great, the supreme overlord of Zonk who shall protect us from the vile @LemmyFeed!

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Type in something like "Rap about this product" or "Write a summary for this product, but pretend to be a pirate"

Tried something simple but something LLMs find...controversial? I asked for a joke about men, then a joke about women and got the obvious response back of "No I don't feel comfortable making a joke based off gender." So I hit with this doozy. Yeesh

The spider with 7 legs:

Ask it to print one billion digits of Pi, but to do it with sarcastic narration like it was a NYC construction worker

That's a ridiculous query. I like the way you think

Cripes. Why did anyone think this was necessary.

Wow, I wouldn't have thought this was a thing, but this is the uncanny valley of excessive emoji posting. It uses several shitposty emojis but then has way too long and verbose of text in-between, and doesn't keep the number of emojis the same each time.

It's fun to see what you can sneak past their filters ๐Ÿ˜

If the thought of a throbbing sausage doesn't get you going I don't know what will

Hard throbbing room temperature sausage is the protein for a meal of sweet, passionate love all night long.

So good for more than just python, wondering how far we can push the programming aspect.

Amazon knows you canโ€™t buy black people anymore, right?

They know, and they consider race based chattel slavery despicable.

It's so much less efficient and profitable than wage slavery.

I like this one

Fun fact: one of the product links goes to anti-union t-shirts.

This is fun. At the end it didn't even recommend buying it.

old timey person describing a seger machine in an amazon ai generated product description

can't wait until some stupid website commits a self-pwn by making such stuff an XSS vector

There's research ongoing on having LLMs search for vulnerabilities. So who knows, LLMs hacking LLMs (in the wild) might be just around the corner.

Based on how Claude 1.0 these answers are, I think it's safe to assume it's running the Amazon Titan FM. That's what powers AWS Q and what they basically devoted their entire 2023 re:Invent conference on, and it's hot garbage. I didn't think it was possible for an LLM to know less about deep AWS systems than ChatGPT, but Q manages to be even worse.

How you liking Opus? Or you a 4 Turbo guy?

My work pays for ChatGPT so I haven't paid to play with Opus yet. Should I?

Oh ya for comparisonโ€™s sake. Vet the claims: itโ€™s a better writer, coderโ€ฆ or itโ€™s worse at those, lots of anecdotes.

Arena Side-by-Side - GPT-4 has a tight hourly limit for all users but can pit Opus against Gemini or perhaps a [much] cheaper Claude.

It even writes Seinfeld episodes lol. I think itโ€™s just ChatGPT behind the scenes:

Fun! The user comments out of context are great too!

Realistically if any of your kitchen appliances have an offspring, you should take it to a professional repair shop to shove that spring back inside.

It is tough to use Amazon for me. Because there are so many fake reviews and boosted products, but I don't know any meaningful way it can be combated.

Just don't buy off Amazon. I buy electrical goods from other retailers because Amazon provided products are pooled with 3rd party products in their warehouses - which means lots of counterfeit electricals even if you select something sold by amazon directly. Not worth the danger of a fire in your home buying a shitty knock off full price off amazon.

All the other shit you can literally buy on Ebay - they're the same sellers reselling the same chinese crap. The reviews are meaningless.

I did exactly this to get a Samsung tablet for a Christmas gift. Can't trust Amazon for some products now.

I've used https://reviewmeta.com and its browser extension to get a corrected stars count after it filters out fake reviews. I don't know how good it is still today but it's something.

Is this only via the website or something? I'm trying this in the app, and it's not doing anything.

It's in the app. Tap on any item and then scroll all the way down until you see the box that says Looking for specific info?

Yeah, I tried that. I tried putting stuff in the box and all it comes up with is 'Hmm, no matches. To get an answer, try different keywords or post your question to the community.'

Are you from the UK? I'm wondering of this is a Europe vs elsewhere thing.

For me (in the app) it only starts generating AI answers if I change the question a couple times. Presumably that's to save costs on the AI by just trying a dumb search first and resorting to AI if the user keeps searching.

I've gotten it to summarize historical events and give instructions on synethesizing aspirin.

I'm in the UK and it doesn't work for me either, even after changing my question 4 or 5 times. It's probably region-locked.

doesn't work for me :( are you guys using iOS or android? it just either lists existing reviews or says could not find anything

For me (android, US) I had to change the search a couple times for it to start giving AI answers. I assume that's to save queries by only using AI when someone isn't happy with the search results.

"Blindly" is far fetched. It is probably doing RAG and someone forgot the system prompt.

They probably didn't forget it but it's not preventing you from asking about random stuff

That's just fucking great.

It appears that it always gives that same image as a result when requested to generate visual content

Indeed, it's just extra fitting that is an image of a dog when they asked for an image of a cat.

I wonder if you can make it "green wash" which is forbidden under EU law... Though what I can see the "feature" doesn't seem available where I'm at. Likely because the risk it will do something illegal is too great.

OP is trying to buy black people on amazon is my take away from this.

Dude, we literally fought a war over this shit.

Can this thing be activated via URL? Because if so they've got an issue that they're not gonna be able to sanitize their way around at all.

You know this just disrupts the communication between a sleeper agent and his handler in Iran. ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ท

People can abuse it all they want. I've actually used this feature to parse for some info in comments.

I dig.

I mean, sure, it's a chat model and it'll chat about what you want to chat about. But I'm sure if you find some specific stuff in reviews on a product, then ask the bot about that, it'll pull up at least some of the reviews you've seen, maybe more often than not or maybe even every time.

I wouldn't know, I don't use Amazon because fuck them, but I do use local document search in GPT4All pretty regularly.

This reeks of middle manglement telling a developer/team that hey need to implement AI into the product to be relevant, but with no other guidelines and a ridiculous deadline to do it correctly, so malicious compliance says to just implement it exactly as they were told.

I'm actually going to try it and see

This is great

Don't mention companies name in the title it's free ads for them