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

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.

43 points | by PyWoody 2 days ago

10 comments

hattmall 2 days ago
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 2 days ago
> 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.
rtcoms 20 hours ago
Recommendation on Amazon are also very bad. After I buy a phone they keep recommending to buy another phone.
llmslave2 2 days ago
Yeah it's incredibly bad, and people are literally learning to not trust a single thing AI touches because of hallucinations like this.
_nickwhite 1 day ago
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.
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- malfist 1 day ago
  It told me the difference between the professional and classic model of a dehydrator was its screen resolution and refresh rate. And that the professional dehydrator was better suited for gamers.
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  - xp84 1 day ago
    Didn’t you see the latest LTT video, “Water-cool your dehydrator for insane FPS”?
throwyawayyyy 2 days ago
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.
rsynnott 1 day ago
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.
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- PyWoody 1 day ago
  Yes! That's exactly what set me off.
  The overviews on IMDB are usually pretty reliable, too.
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  - xp84 1 day ago
    Yeah, the fact that they literally own the IMDB really makes it hilarious that they’re AI-generating any movie or TV information. I could see a startup doing that because it’s not cheap to license such a lot of data. But like, it’s right there! LOL
PeterStuer 2 days ago
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 2 days ago
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.
brewcejener 2 days ago
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