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@ILiedAboutCake on Twitter seems to have first noted that Amazon has a new review search engine, Rufus!

... it's just a ChatGPT prompt window. You can ask it about Barack Obama. You can ask it to write your Python script for you.

Corey Quinn (@quinnypig) notes the pornographic limerick that doesn't rhyme properly

Phil Calcado (@pcalcado) notes that it will happily send you to competitors.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

it would be quite useful to have a search agent you can give your requirements and it just goes through all listings and finds the closest fit

[–] [email protected] 22 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

it would also be nice to have a magical flying unicorn pony that ejaculates rainbows, but all we got is this retired seaside donkey with a cornetto strapped to its head and we fed it food colouring and laxatives

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Tell me more about this donkey...

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

just checking - this is a joke about how AI has polluted search results so much that existing systems don't work anymore right