PSA (?): just got this popup in Firefox when i was on an amazon product page. looked into it a bit because it seemed weird and it turns out if you click the big “yes, try it” button, you agree to mandatory binding arbitration with Fakespot and you waive your right to bring a class action lawsuit against them. this is awesome thank you so much mozilla very cool
https://queer.party/@m04/112872517189786676
So, Mozilla adds an AI review features for products you view using Firefox. Other than being very useless, it’s T&C are as anti-consumer as it possibly can be. It’s like mozilla saying directly “we don’t care about your privacy”.
Who’s tearfully begging for a chatbot to tell them what a review page says instead of just clicking on the page and reading the actual reviews wtf
Normies.
Our IT department is constantly getting tickets to unblock random shitty stuff like that.
I cannot explain it, not even a little, I just know it’s a thing.
Perhaps the general ad infestation of everything blurred the lines.
In a way, in the immediate sense of the moment, being sold bullshit by AI/algorithms or irl by a sales person isn’t that much different. And people don’t care about tomorrow or anything they can’t immediately see.
(Im guessing, all of it)
Does fakespot have a chatbot? I thought it predated LLMs and is basically just some human-made algorithms to filter out suspicious reviews.