Technology

58528 readers

6744 users here now

This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.

Our Rules

Follow the lemmy.world rules.
Only tech related content.
Be excellent to each another!
Mod approved content bots can post up to 10 articles per day.
Threads asking for personal tech support may be deleted.
Politics threads may be removed.
No memes allowed as posts, OK to post as comments.
Only approved bots from the list below, to ask if your bot can be added please contact us.
Check for duplicates before posting, duplicates may be removed

Approved Bots

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

101

Amazon, Tripadvisor and other companies team up to battle fake reviews while FTC seeks to ban them (apnews.com)

submitted 11 months ago by throws_lemy@lemmy.nz to c/technology@lemmy.world

7 comments fedilink hide all child comments

top 7 comments

sorted by: hot top controversial new old

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 38 points 11 months ago

At one point in the future ... bots will be buying cheap products and reviewing it with glowing reviews and recommendations to other bots who will also buy them and repeat.

Future space faring civilizations will wonder why this planet is filled with automated machines, digital systems that are all manufacturing, purchasing, commenting how great these products are no matter how useless they are, then disposing the products and endlessly repeating the cycle.

They will also wonder who the original inhabitants of this planet were and why they built such a strange system.

[–] SpruceBringsteen@lemmy.world 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Remember when the FCC used fake comments to justify their attacks against net neutrality?

I do.

[–] oroboros@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

[–] ComfortablyGlum@sh.itjust.works 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Yrs ago this would have (foolishly) increased my trust in the companies, but I've long since learned that companies building a "coalition" doesn't mean squat unless it's actually utilized to create positive change.

[–] GenderNeutralBro@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

For years they profit off fake reviews. The government finally starts to notice and all of a sudden the corporations give a shit? Riiiiight.

[–] snooggums@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago

It must be hurting their bottom line.

Or they just want certain reviews to be removed by claiming they are fake.

No reason to expect that th reason is to benefit their customers.

[–] Bipta@kbin.social 3 points 11 months ago

I thought fake reviews were already illegal?