I didn’t claim they were faked without strong evidence, I said I was worried that a bunch of them might be.
Anyhow, according to a brief Claude search, fake reviews are incredibly common. E.g. https://capitaloneshopping.com/research/fake-review-statistics/ says that an average of 30% of reviews are fake. So yeah, numerous companies must be indulging in this practice. And better AI makes it easier.
I think it’s a totally reasonable hypothesis to entertain, which is why I try to ask people I actually know about things like this (who tell me Codex is a bit better in some ways, Claude in others, overall similar) rather than trusting anonymous internet comments.
I didn’t claim they were faked without strong evidence, I said I was worried that a bunch of them might be.
Anyhow, according to a brief Claude search, fake reviews are incredibly common. E.g. https://capitaloneshopping.com/research/fake-review-statistics/ says that an average of 30% of reviews are fake. So yeah, numerous companies must be indulging in this practice. And better AI makes it easier.
See also https://x.com/TheMidasProj/status/2041614395583664225 which seems to be OpenAI-linked, and https://doublespeed.ai/.
I think it’s a totally reasonable hypothesis to entertain, which is why I try to ask people I actually know about things like this (who tell me Codex is a bit better in some ways, Claude in others, overall similar) rather than trusting anonymous internet comments.