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Amazon has been listing products with the title, 'I'm sorry, I cannot fulfil this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy' (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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Amazon has been listing products with the title, 'I'm sorry, I cannot fulfil this request as it goes against OpenAI use policy'::Products have appeared on the platform with odd titles that are seemingly related to OpenAI's usage policy.

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (15 children)

Honest question here...

I was always under the impression that AliExpress is worse than Amazon. Now, Amazon is not good, I know that, but I guess the narratives I was fed is that AliExpress is like Wish, and just terrible, counterfeit/knockoff products (Amazon on that fast track), excessive data capture, and I thought CCP (probably confusing with Temu).

Anyway, can you quick explain how AliExpress is a less shitty Amazon? I'll start doing some shopping there if that's the case.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 10 months ago (5 children)

Amazon has essentially become a drop shipping front for AliExpress. You're getting the exact same terrible, knockoff products, just marked up and stored in an Amazon warehouse so you get it in two days instead of two weeks. They're both shitty, but at least with AliExpress you aren't paying extra for the middleman to make a profit.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago (1 children)

iirc drop shipping is where they also ship it from China too. so the person dropshipping doesn't have to keep an inventory of things

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

and yes ofc that also happens on Amazon

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