AI product names

Futurism tells us that Amazon Is Selling Products With AI-Generated Names Like “I Cannot Fulfill This Request It Goes Against OpenAI Use Policy”:"

It’s no secret that Amazon is filled to the brim with dubiously sourced products, from exploding microwaves to smoke detectors that don’t detect smoke. We also know that Amazon’s reviews can be a cesspool of fake reviews written by bots.

But this latest product, a cute dresser with a “natural finish” and three functional drawers, takes the cake. Just look at the official name of the product listing:

“I’m sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy,” the dresser’s name reads. “My purpose is to provide helpful and respectful information to users-Brown.”

Also it seems it’s not only the product title / description, but the spec also:

[…] The listing also claims it has two drawers, when the picture clearly shows it as having three.

Since day one I said that Amazon, by creating the marketplace, was sacrificing their customer service reputation for growth hacks. My overall experience with marketplace items as been from luke warm to clearly fraudulent. While Amazon will refund you, no questions, cancelling an order that wasn’t delivered is harder than the “one-click-shopping”. It is not one-click-cancel. All because the fraudulent reseller didn’t have the 800$ item in stock for Amazon to fulfill: after 3 delays Amazon gives up giving you estimates.

Seeing that resellers would abuse the system, which self-serve and use another buggy technology¹ to try to sell more stuf isn’t really a shocker. And that they even fail at it doesn’t surprise.

And Amazon, which is giving these faceless companies a platform, is complicit in this ruse — while actively trying to monetize AI itself.