This is a community for designs specifically crafted to make the experience worse for the user. This can be due to greed, apathy, laziness or just downright scumbaggery.
This cannot possibly hold up in court. You cant just advertise a product and then be like "*but actually we might be lying about some or all of these things"??? What the fuck are you selling then
Do not buy that laptop. If they cut corners on the fucking description, who knows what else they'll cut corners on.
I literally cannot think of the last time I saw a Samsung (or Sony for that matter) laptop in the wild.
How'd you know it was Samsung? Honestly I don't know if I've ever seen a Samsung laptop even through a screen
I think they’re assuming it’s a Samsung computer because it mentions phone link can connect to a Galaxy smartphone. Seeing as that’s the name of the program provided by Microsoft (which will connect to any smartphone) I’m assuming whatever ad copy this shitty llm ate to regurgitate this slop used a Galaxy phone as an example
I recently ran into this issue with a coffee pot. I was specifically hunting for a coffee pot with an adjustable temperature warmer. Ordered one that specifically stated that in the description, only to receive a coffee pot that did not have that feature. Checked the model number on the box versus the listing, and it's the same. Then I saw the fine print: we are not responsible for inaccurate product information.
They are absolutely responsible for that, fuck em
Too fucking right, send the fucker back
we are not responsible for inaccurate product information.
I have half a packet of mints in my car. Going to put them up on eBay and sell them as immortality drugs. Well see how that works out.
Sales bs has been totally disconnected from actual specs for a long time. Like shopping for hardware a few years ago, I could not rely on any sales garbage for info. I only looked for verifiable model numbers and then looked them up on linux-hardware.org because those scans list everything the Linux kernel discovered.
What's keeping them from checking the info before publishing it, though?
Oh, right. Greed.
Imagine getting a sale from a storefront you didn’t consent to being listed on, with an inaccurate description of your product.
Was just arguing about the usefulness of AI as a tool with someone on here, and he said that AI consistently making mistakes is a great way to improve critical thinking skills, because it challenges you to figure it out on your own after AI fails.
So what I'm saying is, that was an absolute rubbish take, and shit like this is going to be the downfall of the internet. The internet was such a wonderful, useful tool, and now look at how they massacred my boy 😞
It went to shit when "the internet" became 4-6 biggest web services, this is just the final nail in coffin.
Imagine being so lazy that you can't even write a description of your own product to sell. How do you not know your own product?
Yeah, I simply wouldn't buy from them.
I recently tried asking Amazon's AI a simple question about a product that had hundreds of reviews. It was a cheap thing, and I admit I was too lazy to verify the info so I went with what the AI said and bought it, and guess what the AI was just completely wrong and now Amazon is paying for me to ship it back.
You cunts gotta get used to name and shaming instead of just posting and forgetting
There's almost as many words in the disclaimer than the generated description!
If you can't give me exact, accurate details about your own fucking product, then I will not be buying your product. If it even actually exists, which I would now be doubtful of.
Smooth, everyday computing experience.
They're making windows 11 sound like cigarettes. They also advertised about "smooth drags".
They need to be held accountable for every single issue until they realize AI is not the way.
I mean, this kind of missing why AI is so favoured by capitalists despite its obvious unsustainability. AI is already extremely overvaluated for a number of reasons, but its speculative ability to expand corporate ownership of consumer computing while eliminating/devaluing human labour created a potentially infinite vector of growth in a stagnating industry. Because all of these companies invested so heavily into this, largely in a scramble over intellectual property, they were able to realize numbers for this speculative value. Since immaterial financialization is the only kind of growth in a system that is so imcompatible with material reality, these companies have no other option but to adopt the technology, as to deny it would mean that they are not following a profitable vector of growth.
It's a very perfect situation to demonstrate exactly why capitalism is an unsustainable system. Infinite growth and profit imperatives literally makes it impossible to make effective decisions.
"Held accountable" doesn't mean anything wuthin this system, as the legal framework is designed to the interests of capital. They will not choose to stop because neoliberal politics and economic have constructed the state as a viable vector of revenue and risk absorption should any of these gambles fail (especially after the '08 recession).
we strive to deliver accurate information
🤔 what do they think "strive" means?
That's just illegal in many countries for a start
Truth in advertising was killed off in the 80's.. They can basically say whatever they want now and little ever gets done.
I'm like 95% sure a 360 degree hinge isn't even possible, without the thing connected to that hinge being paper thin.
Technically they're not a single 360° hinge. They're actually two 180° hinges that are very close to each other with a short link. I've got one right here.
LLMs are a disease.
I've got a bridge to sell. It's about yay high and goes all the way across. It is colored #9aae07.
Sorry, that color is copyrighted by Pantone, please cease and desist.
I hope somebody sues them for an unreasonable amount of money, and then wins even more - enough to get the attention of other companies that are considering this.
Laziness/overenthusiastic cost cutting is NOT an excuse for false advertising.
Companies really need to stop expecting an ever growing amount of profit and just accept making enough to live off of
I do not get it, how much effort would a product description possibly be to instead use ai? This is not a one off, even before these llm ai systems a lot of instruction manuals in cheap crap you buy were written by machines, very badly.
They are presumably paying people to be executives and board members and managers, but they can't be bothered to pay someone a few hours to write a product description accurately? We have all the wrong people in charge in this country. Because they can not even write an accurate product description they chose to.
Wait, this is on Best Buy?!
I think Best Buy started doing the Amazon thing where they let other people list their items through Best Buy and they just take a listing cut.
Most of the big sales fronts did.
Name and shame. Send the link so we can blast this bullshit.
The idea that a company could sell anything while giving out inaccurate information about the product up-front strikes me as utterly bizarre and unimaginable. at least in germany that would be considered "fraud" and definitely you'd have a right to get your money back.
Looks like you didn't just save 450, you saved a full 1300 by not buying it from them