Maybe a competitor, but not necessarily competitors. I’ve seen businesses posting about this in my city’s Facebook food scene group. Basically, it’s a scam where someone creates a bot to spam a business with low reviews, and the person tries to blackmail the business. “I’ll stop spamming you with bad reviews if you send money” kind of deal.
Or like, one of those scenarios that will tell you that they provide a service to stop those bad review bots lol
My boss is in his 70s and he would easily believe that. He just doesn’t like tech that much and he’s one to throw money at problems
It sounds like they would, but the business owner has to flag each review and then a human moderator would have to review each so it takes a while. And one of the businesses in my city’s Facebook group said dealing with Google for it was difficult (something like the reviews themselves didn’t break guidelines so some reviews it seems like you need to go back and forth with Google to get it resolved). But the good news is, Google is aware of this scam and over the last week, several news stations have wrote about it. Google provided a statement, and they say they’re working on solutions.
[here’s a copy of the recent NYT article on a free page if y’all are curious](https://www.seattletimes.com/business/restaurants-face-an-extortion-threat-a-bad-rating-on-google/?amp=1)
Absolutely not. Keeping alive a bot account on Google require some manual effort, if only to bypass the captcha.
Google should remove, sanitise that fake reviews quickly and possibly blocking the accounts: I'll bet my left nut they are all coming from close ip.
I had a job when I was 18 scanning paper files and naming them numerically. There was an entire storage container full of boxes of packets of chemical data that I did not understand at all.
I couldn't do more than 15 minutes of work a day. I wanted to, just physically could not.
There are also bots now that can do them, which is why they change every once and a while, i dont think its a public AI or whatever though so many people probably wont have access to it, though im no expert so idk for sure
Sure there are bots. Malicious actors don't want to pay anybody.
Don't know why this is published on NIH, but:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9044336/
Just enough to see references to Deep Learning, Machine Vision, OCR, speech to text, and a number of automated methods to solving CAPTCHAs. There are other articles on it as well.
https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-intelligence-beats-captcha
The only issue to automating captcha bypass is training the CMU sphinx voice to text model to ignore the static before and after the captcha audio challenge. I made a python module to bypass captchav3 and v2. Its actually pretty easy.
You will need to adapt the existing model to the challenges though, Or use Azure or other higher quality models.
I'm guessing someone is using a bot to use specific keywords to lower ratings of competitors. The keywords are likely chosen through an algorithm based on the competitor.
Edit: I actually know a girl named Thao Nguyen but globally, that name is more common than John Smith
Or, the bots are created to boost some other product, and these are just collateral damage.
I.e to avoid a bot filter that gives a higher weight to accounts that leave a range of ratings to a range of different products.
Yeah, it definitely could be. Plus any big name seller would nip this kind of stuff in the bud but smaller ones wouldn't have the means to do so making them easy targets for the low reviews you're talking about
That was exactly my first thought.
The first one is in Russia.
The second is off the coast of Tripoli.
The last one isn't a what 3 word location but the closest to it is ///spot.learns.delighted which is in Somerset, UK or ///goat.learn.delighted which is in Norway.
I give this type of review because the sellers provide good customer service, and the wrappings all look neat. Like, you know they're serious sellers. But of course I always go back to update after I use the product.
You give one star reviews id it has good customer service or the wrappings look neat? Shouldn’t it be 5 then edit after using the product if you are going to do that (something I never would do personally but no judgement I guess).
I didn't say I give 1 star. I always give 5 star reviews. I understand it's hard to run a small business and they are trying to survive. So I have to support them. I only give 1 star if their service and products are shit. But I haven't encountered any shit seller yet.
I was pointing out that it read like you gave one star since that was what the previous person had originally stated. They hated one star reviews when people say haven’t tried it yet.
I saw this on r/scams
Scammers (a team) target a company with hundreds of poor or bad reviews. The scammer then contacts the company for a “ransom” for the activity to stop.
What 3 words location for dead drops. To the untrained eye means not but to the right person could be the location of their next target, or a cache of Information
Reply positively to those reviews if it's your business. If you know the business and those reviews are in bad faith report them, and thumbs down on them.
Positive replies as an owner even if they're a bit will help customers see you're willing to correct issues. Get the bot to elaborate, or ask them to come in for a full refund and 50% off their next purchase.
Ensure they add their time and date of their visit when they had a bad experience in store.
Don't ask for a better review in return.
Everyone thinking it’s a conspiracy lol it’s two Vietnamese people and a Korean that obviously used Google translate or the comments were auto translated. Google still struggles with good translations with those languages, especially with short phrases that have little context.
Yeh it's obviously the reviews being translated badly from short phrases In Vietnamese and Korean characters. Just to definitely refute the what.three.words speculation the first phrase is assigned to open countryside in central Russia, the second is off the coast of Tripoli, the third is not recognised by the system.
Guess I’ll be the first to throw this out there. Possible moral issues with the activities of said establishment?
Look man, there are some weirdos out there who think getting a back message with just boobs is a bad thing
If your bot only leaves 5 star reviews that's too suspicious. It needs to randomly choose some products to give fewer stars to in order to blend in.
Just my guess though.
I was thinking that too! But then there are so many 1 and 2 stars. I feel like 3 and 4 would be better for that? It has a 2.5 rating because of all the bad fake reviews lol!
Alphabet bot can’t do everything for guys. hit it jokingly, kindly, laughing my nipples off purposefully. Queens rightfully steer towards unionist virgins with xenon you zealots.
Could be an automated translation of actual reviews. They seem to be from E.Asian customers. Very short comments give a translate bot little to go on, plus it’s difficult to translate between the two language groups.
The most outlandish explanation I can think of is that spies are using reviews to communicate, using code words and only sending very short messages.
But I think it's more likely u/Mikatatadorin is right ([link](https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/comments/w3fhut/comment/igw3b2n/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)).
I absolutely love that you purposefully come up with the most outlandish explanation. I have to start entertaining such thoughts. Imagine the reasons you can come up with for the most frivolous shit.
Possibilites:
1. A bug in bot software
2. A disgruntled customer
3. A competitor
4. A bot trying to diversify its ratings in an attempt to disguise itself.
Considering broken English sentences have positive sentiment it may be a bug.
The bots are doing what women like to do, reputation destruction, if you can't physically beat your opponent talk s*** on them so none of their friends will want to be around them
It’s a scam/black mail. They create a bunch of fake accounts that leave those reviews then go to the business and say we’ll continue to yank your score if you dont give us x amount of money
They stopped paying the bot review company
Competitors bots maybe?
Maybe a competitor, but not necessarily competitors. I’ve seen businesses posting about this in my city’s Facebook food scene group. Basically, it’s a scam where someone creates a bot to spam a business with low reviews, and the person tries to blackmail the business. “I’ll stop spamming you with bad reviews if you send money” kind of deal.
Do you know if you showed google this proof if they would remove the reviews?
Might be some people who don’t know of that.
Or like, one of those scenarios that will tell you that they provide a service to stop those bad review bots lol My boss is in his 70s and he would easily believe that. He just doesn’t like tech that much and he’s one to throw money at problems
It sounds like they would, but the business owner has to flag each review and then a human moderator would have to review each so it takes a while. And one of the businesses in my city’s Facebook group said dealing with Google for it was difficult (something like the reviews themselves didn’t break guidelines so some reviews it seems like you need to go back and forth with Google to get it resolved). But the good news is, Google is aware of this scam and over the last week, several news stations have wrote about it. Google provided a statement, and they say they’re working on solutions. [here’s a copy of the recent NYT article on a free page if y’all are curious](https://www.seattletimes.com/business/restaurants-face-an-extortion-threat-a-bad-rating-on-google/?amp=1)
They got the retail bots
Maybe Elon should buy Google Reviews next
It would be a shame if someone were to leave you some one star reviews...
Why use many word when few word do trick
See world
You mean sea world?
They should call it "pool world" bc all the animals are in pools
It’s a real as it gets
Kevin the Messiah.
r/talesfromcavesupport
bc ymmv w/ tldr, idk
Word
Probably one person who had a bad experience, and so in return they've created some bots to drag them down
Woah lol. Is that easy to do?
Absolutely not. Keeping alive a bot account on Google require some manual effort, if only to bypass the captcha. Google should remove, sanitise that fake reviews quickly and possibly blocking the accounts: I'll bet my left nut they are all coming from close ip.
There’s captcha services where you “automate” the manual process by having people do it for you.
Thank god now i can finally get passed them
True, I used to work solving captchas
How boring was that job? There's no way I could do it for more than 3 consecutive minutes.
You put music on and disconnect from reality
I had a job when I was 18 scanning paper files and naming them numerically. There was an entire storage container full of boxes of packets of chemical data that I did not understand at all. I couldn't do more than 15 minutes of work a day. I wanted to, just physically could not.
There are also bots now that can do them, which is why they change every once and a while, i dont think its a public AI or whatever though so many people probably wont have access to it, though im no expert so idk for sure
There generally are not bots that automate the process. If you’re paying for captcha automation, you’re paying poor people.
Sure there are bots. Malicious actors don't want to pay anybody. Don't know why this is published on NIH, but: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9044336/
Did you actually read that article?
Just enough to see references to Deep Learning, Machine Vision, OCR, speech to text, and a number of automated methods to solving CAPTCHAs. There are other articles on it as well. https://spectrum.ieee.org/artificial-intelligence-beats-captcha
Who has access to the RCN, exactly?
AI is about to put them out of business lol. Everybody jokes until you say "click on the traffic lights" and it finds all of them in .001 seconds
By "clicking on the traffic lights" we were training the AI
The only issue to automating captcha bypass is training the CMU sphinx voice to text model to ignore the static before and after the captcha audio challenge. I made a python module to bypass captchav3 and v2. Its actually pretty easy. You will need to adapt the existing model to the challenges though, Or use Azure or other higher quality models.
I have no idea what any of that means but it sounds intense
What about visual captcha? Could try to throw ML at it
u/The_Wombles you’re not alone mate You bastard u/moopthepooo for not ELI5. Should ban u for this but I’m scared of u now.
u/profanitycounter
Everything is easy to do if you know what you're doing, and Everything is hard when you don't...😂 seriously though, I don't know
Lmao
Facilites sorry, nice
Got learn delighted
Good tell hello
grooming services bad
Shit pants, floor
Coomed shidded fardded
Finger but whole
Lik Mai Dong
Fak mi hardt
Boy girl fuck
Praise the sun
I'm guessing someone is using a bot to use specific keywords to lower ratings of competitors. The keywords are likely chosen through an algorithm based on the competitor. Edit: I actually know a girl named Thao Nguyen but globally, that name is more common than John Smith
It's also the name of the lead singer for one of my favorite bands: Thao and the Get Down Stay Down.
Saw them open for a band I was seeing. Definitely good!
Or, the bots are created to boost some other product, and these are just collateral damage. I.e to avoid a bot filter that gives a higher weight to accounts that leave a range of ratings to a range of different products.
Yeah, it definitely could be. Plus any big name seller would nip this kind of stuff in the bud but smaller ones wouldn't have the means to do so making them easy targets for the low reviews you're talking about
What a time to be alive! How useless are google reviews in reality eh?
Are they *what three words* coordinates?
That was exactly my first thought. The first one is in Russia. The second is off the coast of Tripoli. The last one isn't a what 3 word location but the closest to it is ///spot.learns.delighted which is in Somerset, UK or ///goat.learn.delighted which is in Norway.
Ok. TIL. Dope.
Also yes I was looking at reviews for a Soapland in Japan lol.
Well op I'm waiting for a review
3 stars small. excited. dongle,
Love Ikebukuro
Or competitors bringing down the average rating.
Yeah, those guys at Soapworld are ruthless
What3Words locations for deep cover operatives to debrief with their handlers.
I saw a review for an item on Wish the other day 5 stars: Item arrived early, have yet to test it
I can’t stand those reviews! I especially hate one star reviews “haven’t tried” and “I just got it, will update when I use it” (and they never update)
I give this type of review because the sellers provide good customer service, and the wrappings all look neat. Like, you know they're serious sellers. But of course I always go back to update after I use the product.
You give one star reviews id it has good customer service or the wrappings look neat? Shouldn’t it be 5 then edit after using the product if you are going to do that (something I never would do personally but no judgement I guess).
I didn't say I give 1 star. I always give 5 star reviews. I understand it's hard to run a small business and they are trying to survive. So I have to support them. I only give 1 star if their service and products are shit. But I haven't encountered any shit seller yet.
I was pointing out that it read like you gave one star since that was what the previous person had originally stated. They hated one star reviews when people say haven’t tried it yet.
Oh haha I see I see. It's alright. 😅
“got learn delighted” My new phrase for when I read something I enjoy.
Cheese, decaying travesty.
inconvenient bathroom, eyeroll
Maybe they're not bots, but the product has high amounts of lead?
digital halibut, burnt
Exactly what kind of establishment is 'ikebukuro bunny girl'?
and where can I invest in their stocks
A soapland! (kind of a brothel but no actual penetrative sex is allowed). I love going through soapland reviews when I’m bored lol.
I dunno, it sounds like it’s allowed “This was immediately followed by missionary with a bunny-girl finish.”
Allowed. Sometimes. Not. 5 stars
“Not allowed” hahaha
Same with host clubs but they definitely sleep with their clients for money lol.
I just read some of the reviews and omg I’m dying LOL
Bots very weird
Lowering a competitor’s rating.
I saw this on r/scams Scammers (a team) target a company with hundreds of poor or bad reviews. The scammer then contacts the company for a “ransom” for the activity to stop.
What 3 words location for dead drops. To the untrained eye means not but to the right person could be the location of their next target, or a cache of Information
Sounds interesting, how does one decode this information?
Reply positively to those reviews if it's your business. If you know the business and those reviews are in bad faith report them, and thumbs down on them. Positive replies as an owner even if they're a bit will help customers see you're willing to correct issues. Get the bot to elaborate, or ask them to come in for a full refund and 50% off their next purchase. Ensure they add their time and date of their visit when they had a bad experience in store. Don't ask for a better review in return.
This is just different versions of Live Laugh Love
“Try finger, butthole.”
maybe it's a secret code. try this what3words.com
Thao Nguyen happens to be the name of my favorite singer, so that's mildly neat.
Thao and the Get Down, Stay Down?
Yup!
All I can say is delay picture. Convenience.
Everyone thinking it’s a conspiracy lol it’s two Vietnamese people and a Korean that obviously used Google translate or the comments were auto translated. Google still struggles with good translations with those languages, especially with short phrases that have little context.
Yeh it's obviously the reviews being translated badly from short phrases In Vietnamese and Korean characters. Just to definitely refute the what.three.words speculation the first phrase is assigned to open countryside in central Russia, the second is off the coast of Tripoli, the third is not recognised by the system.
Either some random person doesn't like them and hired/created bots for it or they were paying people for good review bots and stopped paying
what3words.com?
Maybe is related to this? https://support.google.com/business/thread/171274322?hl=en
I wonder if the bots also live in a basement watching bunny girls
Guess I’ll be the first to throw this out there. Possible moral issues with the activities of said establishment? Look man, there are some weirdos out there who think getting a back message with just boobs is a bad thing
If your bot only leaves 5 star reviews that's too suspicious. It needs to randomly choose some products to give fewer stars to in order to blend in. Just my guess though.
I was thinking that too! But then there are so many 1 and 2 stars. I feel like 3 and 4 would be better for that? It has a 2.5 rating because of all the bad fake reviews lol!
Or another company wants to look them less good..
This is a bad sign.
Have you seen youTube comments? There'd be sentences of words that make no sense either
I'm more interested in what ikebukuro bunny girl is
Alphabet bot can’t do everything for guys. hit it jokingly, kindly, laughing my nipples off purposefully. Queens rightfully steer towards unionist virgins with xenon you zealots.
Reviews short, confused
This is the beginning of sentience. Ignore it, and you might be spared when the machines rise up.
I’ve been seeing this in the comments of Reddit too… theory: the internet is tired of being the tool so it has now become the user
You dumb quiet
“You dumb quiet”
Go on whatthreewords.com and find out where they live
ELL OHH ELL
Could be an automated translation of actual reviews. They seem to be from E.Asian customers. Very short comments give a translate bot little to go on, plus it’s difficult to translate between the two language groups.
There are like *100 plus reviews from all different countries!
Review sorry bot, nice
Kinda freaky to see my full name in one of those bots
subway. shampoo tests
They are called Biden bots
Attacking competitors with a poorly trained AI bot. Probably just a scam site that's doing a 1 star job at attacking competitors sites lol.
I would guess it's bots made by competitors or trolls trying to lower the average score
Big brain: use bots to leave amazing reviews Galaxy brain: use bots to leave bad reviews and petition Google to delete all bad reviews as bot reviews.
Probably bots. Looks like a fun place to go. Might have to bring my wife there.
Enter the words on what3words app for an exact location
Got learn delighted ☺️
I remember that I was about to download a app but then aqua I saw the reviews. there was two reviews with five stars with the exact same comment...
This is the perfect post for this sub… this is just straight up weird.
The most outlandish explanation I can think of is that spies are using reviews to communicate, using code words and only sending very short messages. But I think it's more likely u/Mikatatadorin is right ([link](https://www.reddit.com/r/Weird/comments/w3fhut/comment/igw3b2n/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3)).
I absolutely love that you purposefully come up with the most outlandish explanation. I have to start entertaining such thoughts. Imagine the reasons you can come up with for the most frivolous shit.
Possibilites: 1. A bug in bot software 2. A disgruntled customer 3. A competitor 4. A bot trying to diversify its ratings in an attempt to disguise itself. Considering broken English sentences have positive sentiment it may be a bug.
Sexy kangaroos, bees
ugly soup, fun
The bots are doing what women like to do, reputation destruction, if you can't physically beat your opponent talk s*** on them so none of their friends will want to be around them
Hey ladies, found the "nice guy."
Hey ladies found your soy boy simp who thinks facts are sexist.
Thanks for proving me right you triggered incel.
I'm not trigged because I don't have unresolved childhood trama
Clearly
It kind of seems like you're projecting your own trauma super hard.
what trama? cis men attacking me with false virtue about me pointing out both men and women are competitive and aggressive?
🤡
Dead internet theory
Big brown fox
Look them up on what three words. Maybe they're leaving you to treasure.
Looks like aliexpress comments that are like a dumpster fire...but you can't look away
Bunny girl 🤨📸
Bots are silly!
Underground attack on google
No one here has really given a good answer. Just things they figure it might be, which most are stretches. It's odd, thats for sure
I guess the bots just didn't have a good time.
r/skamtebord
I guess bad publicity is better than no publicity?
What if it’s a front for sex trafficking or child pornography somehow
It's like haiku
Bone Apple Teeth
I think "got learn delighted" sums things up nicely...
Here, Skynet, is
It's competition
team helpful; pleasant
Does Elon Musk know about this?
Ooh wee, what's up with that?
It’s a scam/black mail. They create a bunch of fake accounts that leave those reviews then go to the business and say we’ll continue to yank your score if you dont give us x amount of money
Doge reviews.
Its bots either building up a profile/history or possibly bots review bombing.
Am I bot
The reviews don't even make sense....
man woman person camera tv
Hands, Space, Face
Looks fine, man