Amazon rolls out AI-generated product review summaries

US ecommerce giant Amazon is using generative AI to distil multiple product reviews presumably written by real people into one easy to digest summary.
As if to sugar the AI pill, the Amazon blog announcing the move explains at length that when user reviews were first introduced in 1995 they were initially viewed with scepticism before being lovingly embraced. Now, we’re told, we wouldn’t dream of buying so much as a charging cable before consulting the army of strangers who felt move