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Amazon Prime AI overviews can't even get the basics right

43 points by PyWoody ↗ HN
Frasier is one of my favorite shows of all time. I love the characters, the writing, the acting, the whole kit and kaboodle.

I've been watching it on Prime and it's been driving me insane how drivel and nonsensical their season and episode AI overviews are.

Here is the overview for season eight:

  In the eighth season of Frasier we meet Daphne and Niles post elopement and dealing with Donny suing Daphne. Meanwhile, Frasier reluctantly becomes 'mentor' to station KACL's young new owner, Silicon Valley billionaire Kenny Daly
Niles and Daphne elope in season ten! Kenny Daly is the lovable station manager, not the new owner!

What is going on? Amazon's a billion fucking dollar company. Just pay for IMBD's overviews. Oh, that's right, Amazon owns IMDB because of course they do.

I am so sick and tired of this AI slop infecting everything.

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llmslave2
Yeah it's incredibly bad, and people are literally learning to not trust a single thing AI touches because of hallucinations like this.
hattmall
The best is when you are looking at products, and instead of showing you product information. It shows you an AI summary that's incorrect. And it has suggested questions you can ask the AI that it then answers in a nonsensical way.

Like the seller is putting in the product information, why would we need AI to regurgitate that? But even better, it's not even accurate.

add-sub-mul-div
> What is going on?

The exact thing predicted by all the people who have been shouting that the emperor has no clothes for a few years now.

throwyawayyyy
A story that popped up in my Google Now (or whatever it's called these days) feed: "Princess Bride Still Cherished by Fans". With an image from the Fellowship of the Ring. And in tiny text at the bottom, "Generated with AI, which can make mistakes".

It's all so dispiriting: produced without thought, consumed without pleasure.

PeterStuer
AI fatigue is real. I would guess about 50% of digital technical content in my YouTube feed is now NotebookLM slop.

Don't mistake me for an AI hater. I love using AI in my dev and research work. But having the same scripted low effort content being churned out en mass on every media platform is making curation such a nescessary high maintainance chore.

andyjohnson0
Please don't abuse Ask HN by using it as a blogging platform. Per the guidelines, it is intended for asking questions of the community.
rsynnott
Why do they even have these? Like, Frasier has been available on various streaming platforms for probably 15 years. Some human has already written presumably correct episode/season summaries.
PyWoody
Yes! That's exactly what set me off.

The overviews on IMDB are usually pretty reliable, too.

_nickwhite
The "ask Rufus" AI feature of every Amazon product page is almost as bad. It has misguided me on product specs so many times now, I am convinced I can find a better answer manually grepping through the page and reviews.
rtcoms
Recommendation on Amazon are also very bad. After I buy a phone they keep recommending to buy another phone.