Amazon Just Made Sorting Through Customer Reviews Easier — But the Change Is Raising Some Alarming QuestionsThe tool features a disclaimer and could save you a lot of time.

ByAmanda Breen•Jun 14, 2023

It seems like everyone is harnessing the power of rapidly advancingAIto gain an edge in business these days — including ecommerce giant Amazon.

The company is experimenting with using generativeAIto summarizeproduct reviews, and although the move has the potential to save customers time from sifting through thousands of comments, it also raises concerns about the technology's readability and the potential infiltration of fake reviews,CNNreported.

An AI-generated review forApple's third-generation AirPods illustrates the benefits and challenges, per the outlet.

Although it might be helpful to read a summary of more than 4,000 reviews that says the AirPods "have received positive feedback from customers regarding their sound quality and battery life," reading that "all customers who mentioned stability had a negative opinion about it" is ambiguous and potentially confusing.

All AI-generated summaries come with a disclaimer: "AI-generated from the text of customer reviews."

But the possibility of fake reviews finding their way into the summaries is also troubling. According to the fraudulent-review-detection service Fakespot, approximately 42% of 720 millionAmazon reviewsanalyzed in 2020 were phony,New Yorkmagazine reported.

"We have zero tolerance for fake reviews and want Amazon customers to shop with confidence knowing that the reviews they see are authentic and trustworthy," an Amazon spokesperson toldEntrepreneur."We have clear policies that prohibit reviews abuse, and we suspend, ban, and take legal action against those who violate these policies. We aim to prevent fake reviews from ever appearing in our store and in 2022, we proactively blocked more than 200 million suspected fake reviews."

Amanda Breen

Entrepreneur Staff

Features Writer

Amanda Breen is a features writer at Entrepreneur.com. She is a graduate of Barnard College and received an MFA in writing at Columbia University, where she was a news fellow for the School of the Arts.

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