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Amazon Generative AI tools for writing product descriptions

I’m assuming nobody is surprised by this: “New AI capabilities make it easier for sellers to write engaging, effective product listings, and help shoppers find what they are looking for.” BTW, just quietly, the whole blog post announcing it feels like it was written by AI. The telltale bloat of over-explaining a topic. So I asked ChatGPT to summarise it – here’s all...

Low value reviews on Amazon

I love Amazon. For so many reasons. One of the reasons: reviews on books Usually so helpful. But I feel sorry for authors who get 1 star reviews because a customer received a damaged book. That’s not the author’s fault, and there’s nothing they can do about it. It also offers no value to people reading the reviews. And… of all the places to complain about a damaged book...

Another reason why I love Amazon

I read a lot of fiction on Kindle. Most books I love. Yesterday I finished a book (I won’t mention which one) and absolutely hated the ending. It was a detective story and in the end the book’s protagonist dies, and the murderer gets away. Justice does not prevail. I loathe books like that. Although I won’t get those hours of my life back, I did get my money back. Straight onto...

Alexa, Siri, Google allow opt out of human listening

Not before time (via Bloomberg): Amazon.com Inc. will let Alexa users opt out of human review of their voice recordings, a move that follows criticism that the program violated customers’ privacy. emphasis mine Apple has actioned this just recently, and Google has (in EU at least) as well. Still not right that people can opt out (ie they need to take the initiative) – this should be an...

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