Comments on: Amazon is summarizing product reviews with AI. Are book reviews next? https://buildbookbuzz.com/amazon-is-summarizing-product-reviews-with-ai-are-book-reviews-next/ Do-it-yourself book marketing tips, tools, and tactics Thu, 07 Dec 2023 21:33:33 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Sandra Beckwith https://buildbookbuzz.com/amazon-is-summarizing-product-reviews-with-ai-are-book-reviews-next/#comment-22683 Fri, 07 Jul 2023 16:59:20 +0000 https://buildbookbuzz.com/?p=16673#comment-22683 In reply to Gabi Coatsworth.

Gabi, I got the impression from the image of one of the new AI-generated summaries shown in the second link of my first paragraph that the summaries just repeat what’s already available for number of reviews and average star rating. Since these are summaries of existing reviews, starred “reviews” with no text won’t be factored into the written summary (because there’s nothing to summarize), but the stars remain part of the average rating.

Sandy

]]> By: Gabi Coatsworth https://buildbookbuzz.com/amazon-is-summarizing-product-reviews-with-ai-are-book-reviews-next/#comment-22682 Fri, 07 Jul 2023 16:23:55 +0000 https://buildbookbuzz.com/?p=16673#comment-22682 This is interesting. I do check book reviews, specifically if I’m reading something that I don’t think is all that great, to see whether I’ve missed the point. But before I buy a book or audiobook, I make a point of checking the less enthusiastic reviews (1 & 2 stars) if there seem to be a lot of them, to see why. I’m wondering how AI would amalgamate all the reviews – whether it would produce an “average” review. So if a book has equal numbers of 5 and 1-star reviews, the average might be 3 stars. Same with reviews. And there are plenty of 1 & 2-star ratings without reviews, because readers are too polite to trash a book, perhaps. I wonder how they would factor in. Definitely a thought-provoking post. Thanks!

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