this post was submitted on 16 Jan 2026
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This cannot possibly hold up in court. You cant just advertise a product and then be like "*but actually we might be lying about some or all of these things"??? What the fuck are you selling then

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[โ€“] bdonvr@thelemmy.club 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

To be fair it could just be whatever RETAILER is using the slop description, but not the manufacturer.

But yeah, don't buy from them.

[โ€“] egrets@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

That does seem to be the case - it's specifically Best Buy and they seem to have fed the spec sheet into an LLM to generate a description.