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How does the Grok app have 4.9 stars on the Gplay app store? Surely the reviews are spurious. Right?
Right?
Trusting the reviews on an AI app is like trusting the reviews on a marketing firm.
It's rated by people who actually seriously use AI and those people are all morons.
Do you actually think it's legit reviews made by humans and not entirely fabricated ?
In my opinion, same difference.
True
I used to work for a cable company whose name rhymes with "bombast". Our iOS app was barely rated above one star, with many reviews along the lines of "I gave this app one star because you can't give an app zero stars". Bombast regularly sent out company-wide emails requesting employees to download the app and give it five stars. I don't know exactly how many employees they had but it obviously wasn't enough to make a dent in the awfulness.
They had also just won the Consumerist "worst company in the world" contest (while being the runner-up the two years prior), and they sent out emails telling employees to download that spreadsheet and vote for any other company. Thank god for BP and Deepwater Horizon!
Because anyone with more than 2 brain cells has elected to not download it.