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Fake reviews: can we trust what we read online as use of AI explodes? (theguardian.com)
9 points by marban 10 months ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



>Fake online reviews have long existed and are often not difficult to spot: tortured and mangled English, and excessive praise mixed with blandness to hide the fact the “reviewer” has been nowhere near the actual hotel or restaurant.

I think the mangled ones are put there so people reading them think those are the only fake reviews, but most of the reviews are fake I believe. There's really no way to tell. ChatGPT is just a new method of the same old thing.

I haven't trusted Amazon reviews since the aughts. I usually read the negative ones to get a more accurate feel because I don't believe anyone one pays for negative reviews.




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