Yelp doesn't put nearly as much effort into policing bad reviews as manipulating the algorithm to hide good reviews if you won't cough up for their advertising. If you are posting a good review for a restaurant that is paying Yelp, it for sure will be posted. Otherwise? It is a crap shoot. Google reviews are way less biased. I personally go out of the way never to use Yelp. One problem Chat GPT will generate across all platforms: is you used to be able to ID most fake reviews from being either poorly written, or only one or two lines, or both. That will change and fake reviews will flood onto sites, in the same way ChatCPT is making Phising scam emails more effective. Criminals and scammers didn't have a way to sound like an educated native English speaker before.
The reddit site r/Yelp/drama is interesting. The first comment, in which the machinations of not using 1 time reviewers, or having friends (same IP addresses?) convinces me my decision to consider "real user" reviews fake, unless there is a "non-digital" tell in the comment, was a good one. The last one, which showed me how to buy good reviews on yelp, (or googe), should make anyone who writes reviews feel foolish (unless they are getting paid). It's a fool's paradise.
Oh yes. Right now, every AI company is using a "motte and bailey," claiming they're worried about gov regulation of AI safety because it will block competition from small AI companies. They call it "regulatory capture" But then two EU AI companies gave up the game by getting a couple of politicians they own to gut the AI safety regulations EU was working on. That is REAL regulatory capture: the politicians do what the companies want, and what the AI companies want right now is zero regulation on AI development, despite public statements from open AI and Deep Mind etc that safety regulation is very important.
Yelp doesn't put nearly as much effort into policing bad reviews as manipulating the algorithm to hide good reviews if you won't cough up for their advertising. If you are posting a good review for a restaurant that is paying Yelp, it for sure will be posted. Otherwise? It is a crap shoot. Google reviews are way less biased. I personally go out of the way never to use Yelp. One problem Chat GPT will generate across all platforms: is you used to be able to ID most fake reviews from being either poorly written, or only one or two lines, or both. That will change and fake reviews will flood onto sites, in the same way ChatCPT is making Phising scam emails more effective. Criminals and scammers didn't have a way to sound like an educated native English speaker before.
The reddit site r/Yelp/drama is interesting. The first comment, in which the machinations of not using 1 time reviewers, or having friends (same IP addresses?) convinces me my decision to consider "real user" reviews fake, unless there is a "non-digital" tell in the comment, was a good one. The last one, which showed me how to buy good reviews on yelp, (or googe), should make anyone who writes reviews feel foolish (unless they are getting paid). It's a fool's paradise.
Oh yes. Right now, every AI company is using a "motte and bailey," claiming they're worried about gov regulation of AI safety because it will block competition from small AI companies. They call it "regulatory capture" But then two EU AI companies gave up the game by getting a couple of politicians they own to gut the AI safety regulations EU was working on. That is REAL regulatory capture: the politicians do what the companies want, and what the AI companies want right now is zero regulation on AI development, despite public statements from open AI and Deep Mind etc that safety regulation is very important.