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autotldr Bot , to technology in Amazon begins rolling out AI-generated review summaries

This is the best summary I could come up with:


Available initially to “a subset of mobile shoppers in the U.S. across a broad selection of products,” the artificial intelligence tool creates a recap paragraph highlighting common themes from customer feedback.

The idea behind the ML-generated summary is to let shoppers get the gist of their peers’ impressions without having to file through a swath of reviews manually.

There’s also the question of whether AI-powered fake reviews (using ChatGPT or similar tools) are more challenging for Amazon to spot than human-written ones.

The company’s strategy includes only unleashing the summarization tool on verified purchases while using AI models that allegedly detect sketchy reviews — and calling in human investigators when needed.

“We continue to invest significant resources to proactively stop fake reviews,” Amazon Community Shopping Director Vaughn Schermerhorn said.

“This includes machine learning models that analyze thousands of data points to detect risk, including relations to other accounts, sign-in activity, review history, and other indications of unusual behavior, as well as expert investigators that use sophisticated fraud-detection tools to analyze and prevent fake reviews from ever appearing in our store.


I’m a bot and I’m open source!

ThePantser ,

Look a AI summary bot, ironic.

sndrtj ,

Very meta.

autotldr Bot , to gaming in Why Baldur’s Gate III is an accidental PS5 console exclusive

🤖 I’m a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles:

Click here to see the summaryBaldur’s Gate III is a highly anticipated role-playing game set in the Dungeons & Dragons universe, offering familiar classes and abilities in an expansive high-fantasy world. Though Microsoft’s parity requirements have been in place since the Xbox Series consoles came to market in November 2020, Baldur’s Gate III is the ecosystem’s highest-profile loss directly attributable to these restrictions. There weren’t a ton of concrete examples to prove this theory, and the Digital Foundry team argued against the idea, citing the existing variance in the PC market and saying that lower targets could actually help games run even better on higher-powered consoles. “MANY developers have been sitting in meetings for the past year desperately trying to get Series S launch requirements dropped,” Bossa Studios VFX artist Ian Maclure tweeted at the time. Rocksteady senior character technical artist Lee Devonald similarly tweeted about his experience building Gotham Knights — a game that shipped on consoles with a framerate locked at 30 fps and no performance mode. Regardless of whether the Series S is restraining the entire video game industry, Xbox parity requirements are literally holding back Baldur’s Gate III, and this system has accidentally created another console exclusive for the PS5, for now.

Silviecat44 ,

Bad summary

fer0n , to technology in Tesla sued for false advertising after allegedly exaggerating EV ranges / The proposed class action accuses Tesla of fraud

The latest podcast season of Land of the giants is about Tesla, I‘m finding that quite interesting so far: first episode

new_acct_who_dis ,

Thanks for the rec, this pod looks very interesting!

bloopernova , to moviesandtv in The Emmys are reportedly delayed due to ongoing strikes | Engadget
@bloopernova@programming.dev avatar

I feel bad for the people who won’t get paid because of this.

But I can happily do without massively rich privileged people congratulating themselves for several hours.

A2PKXG , to technology in Tor’s shadowy reputation will only end if we all use it | Engadget
@A2PKXG@feddit.de avatar

Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

Operating nodes is expensive, offers no reward, and comes with a serious legal risk.

This won’t stop the NSA from operating a few. I assume that a significant portion of Tor nodes is run by intelligence agencies. If they control all nodes used for a connection(i believe three are used), they can probably piece together what connections a user is having.

EmperorHenry ,

It is expensive. And yeah, it might get you into trouble in some places.

And yes, the glowies use it, but journalists and whistleblowers use it too.

Fizz , to technology in AMD unveils its first laptop processor with 3D V-Cache
@Fizz@lemmy.nz avatar

That mobile chip seems better than my ryzen 5600x lol

Hobovision ,
@Hobovision@kbin.social avatar

Probably way better and way more expensive.

sgtgig , to technology in YouTube Premium quietly goes up in price to $14 per month | That's a significant $2 increase with no official announcement.

I pay Google for Google domains (shutting down, being transferred to somewhere) and YT premium and they didn’t tell me either of these things.

TechnoBabble ,

All Google domains are transferring to SquareSpace, and you get 1 renewal at the old rate before SquareSpace can charge you whatever they want.

sgtgig ,

A nice email from Google explaining that would have been lovely.

Pizzarules668 ,

I got an email saying there was a price increase coming soon

atomicpeach ,
@atomicpeach@pawb.social avatar

I love that I learned about Google Domains being shut down from a Lemmy comment~ I was debating moving those away from Google anyway. Has anyone else already done research and narrowed down the list of decent registrars worth using?

ICastFist , to technology in ASUS will manufacture and develop new Intel NUC mini PCs
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Eh, I’ll very thoroughly look up customer reviews outside amazon before buying anything from Asus. I have a GL702 laptop that heats up like a fucking stove, has the flimsiest cooling system and, to top it off, causes intense screen tearing when running hot. I keep expecting the screen to die from excessive heat exposure any time I’m playing.

mrmanager ,
@mrmanager@lemmy.today avatar

Asus used to be good. These days I’m not so sure.

Delusional ,

I recently bought an Asus router that just stops working for no good reason. Looked up the issue and apparently they’ve known about it for a while but have not fixed it.

mrmanager ,
@mrmanager@lemmy.today avatar

The default software is kind of shitty and buggy. I flashed my Asus with Tomato. See if your router is supported by FreshTomato for example, it can really make a huge difference in stability and features.

freshtomato.org

Cenzorrll ,

Everything I’ve purchased from Asus for the last 10 years has been absolute garbage. HP and Dell are better.

That’s right, I said it.

TimeNaan ,

I have the same model. It crashes all the time due to some kind of cpu bug. Also sleep mode stopped working after linux kernel 5.10. Asus, never again.

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

Oh yeah, reminds me that you can’t spin the fans to the max (~10kRPM) under linux. I had to download a package off github, asus-fan-control, to make it stop frying itself

TimeNaan ,

I use NBFC for that and never had any problem with the fans. They’re probably the best working part of that system - at least you can always reliably hear them! This thing is loud af.

LuckyLu ,

My dad and aunt have used Zenbooks and Vivobooks for years without issue. Maybe the ROG lineup aren’t as durable?

ICastFist ,
@ICastFist@programming.dev avatar

It’s possible. I have an older S46C ultrabook from 2012 and the fella still runs good. The downside is that the GPU sits on the left of the mouse touchpad, so your left wrist will feel the heat if you play certain games

LuckyLu ,

It’s not meant to game anyway, so who gives a fuck?

pavnilschanda , to technology in An email typo has reportedly sent millions of US military messages to Mali
@pavnilschanda@lemmy.world avatar

Starting to wonder if the ageing decision makers are gonna cause more problems like this. But even the young members of the US military have made similar slip-ups. I don’t know what the root cause of the problem is.

USSEthernet ,

It’s all ages and ranks. There’s no accountability anymore unless you’re enlisted E-7 or below, you get fucked. If you’re an officer, you get promoted for doing stuff like this.

14th_cylon ,

this is not just about people in us military, some of these mails may be coming from outside and you can’t really control what you are being mailed in.

Rachelhazideas , to technology in Meta faces a $100,000 daily fine if it doesn't fix privacy issues in Norway | 'It is so clear that this is illegal that we need to intervene now and immediately.'

For anyone claiming that this isn’t enough, remember that Norway’s population is 5.4 million. If the fine were raised any higher, Facebook can simply not do business there. The goal is to get Facebook to comply with the law, not to remove them.

"This decision “does not ban Facebook or Instagram in Norway,” Tobias Judin, the Norwegian Data Protection Authority’s international department head, stated in a release. “The purpose is rather to ensure that people in Norway can use these services in a secure way and that their rights are safeguarded.” - > AP News

At face value many people would say that Facebook pulling out is a good thing, but it’s not that simple. Lots of small businesses rely on social media. People would be losing a forum for political discourse, no matter how fake news infested it may be. People who rely on it to initiate social interaction will have to find a different channel now. They are so conditioned to the convenience of staying connected with friends and family through social media that it has eroded forms of communication. This isn’t a judgment on social media users, this is just stating how social interactions have changed and how detrimental removing these tools can be.

Facebook has around 3 billion users. It’s economic impact is estimated at 227 billion USD. It’s part of the fabric of society, especially for people with poor media literacy. Good luck pulling the plug on that.

ndr , to news in Canadian judge rules the thumbs up emoji counts as a contract agreement

To be honest, I find this equally stupid (or not) as handshakes being legally binding.

IncidentalIncidence ,

Agreed. If verbal agreements and handshake deals can be legally binding contracts, I don’t see why emoji wouldn’t be.

darkmugglet ,

So, er, what does a poop emoji mean?

grrgyle , to news in Volunteers who lived in NASA’s Mars simulation for over a year will finally emerge today

That’s cool, and not to sound vapid but, triangles on the lapels…? I know it’s inversed, etc etc, but it still scans oddly, to my eyes at least…

athairmor ,

They’re dressed like they expect the mothership to arrive any minute which is sort of appropriate for people pretending to be on Mars.

sugar_in_your_tea , to technology in An ID verification service that works with TikTok and X left its credentials wide open for a year

And this is why I hate those laws that are intended to protect kids. Yeah, it would be nice if kids couldn’t see stuff they shouldn’t, but it’s even better if my PII isn’t stolen. I’d rather my kids accidentally see porn once in a while than for their identity to be stolen.

FangedWyvern42 , to technology in Apple reportedly has plans for a thinner iPhone, MacBook Pro and Apple Watch
@FangedWyvern42@lemmy.world avatar

Can this trend of thin tech just end already? It’s pointless.

laurelraven ,

Yeah, I’d rather have my back panel fingerprint reader back than an even thinner phone, and then there’s the pointlessness of making the phone so thin that to have a remotely decent camera they have to add a huge bulge. Just… Make the whole damned thing that thick and use the extra space for, I dunno, more battery maybe?

Dragomus , to news in Music publishers accuse Spotify of 'bait-and-switch subscription scheme'

Hmm what am I missing here…

Spotify is raising prices because it wants to sell product “B” next to “A” that it already had. But now the management of Product A is claiming that the extra money from raised prices belongs to them because spotify was selling A first?

That is quite ballsy … granted I expected nothing less from the greedy music industry, but this is quite on a new level.

CleoTheWizard ,
@CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world avatar

Okay so in plain terms (from what I can tell) they’re arguing that Spotify isn’t paying them enough because they have product A and product B. A bundle of A and B has their prices raised but only costs a dollar more than product A with its costs raised. So they’re arguing that they deserve a larger part of product A since B clearly isn’t adding much value to their platform.

Then additionally they claim that by offering product B as a standalone subscription, the price they’re setting for product B only serves to allow Spotify to pay them less for A in those bundles.

This makes sense because it’s a good way to reduce the money paid to the music side of the business by inserting new things into their services and then claiming that the new rate increases are due to that new service (that they don’t have to pay out as much to audio book companies for).

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