Originally published at: Amazon product name is an OpenAI error message - Boing Boing
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I see Brian has infected Amazon as well.
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Just in case someone didn’t get the reference:
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It appears that the future will involve learning to obsequiously thank your betters for the opportunity to eat the scraps of skin shed by the inhuman centipede.
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How is it easier to use OpenAI (any AI) than to just use the description “dresser”, or “cabinet”, or “3 drawer cabinet”?
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I feel like the time it takes to enter the data for a decent prompt would be about the same as just doing it yourself. How else does the algorithm know how to describe the product?
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If their prompt was the original text in a different language, it wouldn’t take long at all.
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True. For some reason I didn’t connect those things even though I clearly saw someone else point it out. Edit: I mean in the original post. 
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Perhaps the AI thought it was too scandalous to write a detailed description of another person’s drawers.
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Covfefe-Brown
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After decades of seeing absurdly mistranslated product names/titles/descriptions on amazOMG and ebay, this comes as no surprise.
ETA: Sure seems like using google translate’d be easier, cheaper, and sad to say - waaayy more
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Counterintuitively, easier and cheaper aren’t always priorities for lazy, corner-cutting vendors like these. They’re so incompetent that they can’t put in the research effort needed to maximise their laziness.
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as a non-english speaker, I’ve been wrecking my brain trying to find a piece of furniture that could scandalize an AI to such an extent.
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