all help documentation made useless

[nickhall]

Where's the help documentation gone? Its just a slop generator now, and it is soooo slow to try and search. And repeat a search, it is just as slow, they are not caching anything.

Last week a search for "bulk" would give me a page of documentation, but now, nothing that can be trusted and so has been blocked.

Tech support claim there are search results, but this is not true, there is a block of output from an electronic psychic, and like those IRL, they are not worth even thinking about.

This adblock rule will hide the slop, and this is how I have dealt with the output of the stochastic parrot. This is only the 2nd adblock filter I have created on ebay, downloaded lists have been good enough apart from an ad, and now the slop.

The documentation has been poor and ebay don't care already, eg the docs say OR about payment methods to ebay, but when setting them up it is an AND: bank and debit card, not bank or debit card like docs said. And now? The slop generator is working off that kind of thing.

So far I have asked ebay to phone me and chatted to staff via the terrible little box thing. We can make the slop too expensive.

[nickhall]

Archive.org will likely have the docs in a browsable manner, and I guess is that how I should now get info?

Google used to have a cache thing, but I do not use Google search since they made the search reliant on JS. And I think the google cache has been taken away, too.

Maybe archive.is, too. That site was DDOS'ing other sites, so JS must be off to use archive.is  without partaking in the DDOS.

Bulk uploading of items doesn't seem that easy. As an example, there is zero chance the LLM that responds like it is running on a pentium 90 can tell me if ebay copies images from 3rd party hosting to ebay, and if it does, will it take from http and not insist on https.

I was straight told earlier today by an agent behind the pokey text box thing the AI cannot be turned off. I thought it was the case that I cannot turn off the slop generators, and so I was obviously asking ebay to turn it off. Support chose to take an interpretation that was not user-focussed, and that is a sign that the management are treating staff very badly, pressuring staff to pressure users to use the slop machine. The management should be ashamed of what they are doing. And for what? The owners will not reward supine mangers, they will keep them on staff past retirement age if they can!

To make the adblock rule with ublock, r-click on some LLM output, block element, and use the sliders to adjust what is blocked. This technique will work for anything on the web you don't like, eg cookies nags, social media icons, nags on ebay to pay to promote your listings, and bad design like fixed and sticky elements.

[nickhall]

Through the standard proprietary software troubleshooting methods of trial-and-error, blind-luck, clicking on stuff semi-randomly, but mostly moaning to a mate about the slop-gen takeover, I found something:

If you are not logged into eBay, the search on help & contact is just a plain keyword-based search. No slop generator is forced on you.

You get a list of results based on relevance, which will be a secret algorithm, but it is probably the more times a word appears, put the doc higher on the list. Or it could be page-rank-like, based on links as indicators of importance rather than simple word count.

No matter what, the former system would not be accused of hallucinating. Nor dreaming, which is the anthropomorphic word for AI output, if a fair standard is applied if hallucination can be a descriptor. AI hypers pretend the output of AI is real, but it is as real as our dreams.

Anyway, old search is there for not logged in users. Maybe the Private Window thing can do it too?

Ironically, whilst trying to avoid the AI bot ebay is restricting my access to ebay from a non-logged in browser. Not straight telling me I am a bot, but if it could think, the ebay automata is projecting, thinks I am a bot, so denying service.