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Fakespot shuts down today after 9 years of detecting fake product reviews

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406 points doppio19 | 2 comments | 01 Jul 25 20:26 UTC | HN request time: 1.337s | source
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xnx ◴[01 Jul 25 23:23 UTC] No.44438853[source]▶
Did Fakespot work? I can't see how it would stand a chance against LLM generated reviews without even having the log (keystroke?) data that Amazon does.
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1. doppio19 ◴[01 Jul 25 23:32 UTC] No.44438913[source]▶
I found that it did a pretty decent job. Certainly not 100% accurate, but it often picked up on signals that made me give a closer look at a listing than I would have otherwise.

I'm sure detection is getting harder as LLMs' writing patterns become less predictable, but I frequently come across reviews on Amazon that are so blatantly written by ChatGPT. A lot of these fake reviewers aren't particularly sneaky about it.

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2. markrages ◴[01 Jul 25 23:43 UTC] No.44438974[source]▶
I think a lot of real reviews are written by ChatGPT. People are lazy!