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dankwizard ◴[] No.44439699[source]
It was falling behind. The dodgy stores were getting more creative and Fakespot needed to play catch up.

You've got stores that would include a $5-$20 coupon/gift card in the item in exchange for a positive review. Sure, this didn't 1:1 translate but if a user did it would look like a legitimate review.

You've got a plethora of LLMs out there just itching to GENERATE.

Then an expensive option I was suprised happened - I bought a Dyson clone vacuum cleaner off of Amazon. A few weeks later, the company emailed me and said 'We have a new model. Buy that one, leave a review, we'll refund the purchase'. So I did it. This happened about 10 more times in 2024. My outdoor shed is entirely stick vacuums.

Feel a bit dirty doing it but that's ok I've got 12 vacuums that can clean my conscience.

I think Fakespot would have difficulty with all 3 of these scenarios.

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thoroughburro ◴[] No.44442918[source]
> Feel a bit dirty doing it but that's ok I've got 12 vacuums that can clean my conscience.

All it takes to lose civilisation is for everyone to think as selfishly as this.

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1. spicyusername ◴[] No.44442967[source]
Nah, civilizations been running on this attitude since it's inception, and here we are.

There's never been a magical golden age where people were any different than they are.

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2. yifanl ◴[] No.44444138[source]
The difference is mostly that people with this mindset were less empowered to enact upon it.

But we've democratized fraud now.