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520 Tech Readers Reveal: Reddit Beats WIRED as AI Makes Reviews Worse

Our investigation into tech review credibility began when we encountered a methodologically questionable review of one of our air quality monitors from a major tech publication.


This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://www.airgradient.com/blog/future-of-tech-reviews/
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I want to add. During the research of this article, the AI part became increasingly important. It was super interesting prompting AI to do much more thorough product research and very often the first suggestions it came up with turned out to be completely wrong.

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The other thing that I might add is that sites masquerading as review sites that are no more than shills for Amazon I immediately discard from having any credibility whatsoever. Sales of a product and honest reviews are pretty much incompatible endpoints . . . .

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I love my AirGradients. I have 2 indoor ONE’s. WIRED had one criticism of the ONE. The screen is illegibly small unless you are standing directly in front of it.

I concur. This spin is a bit…disingenuous because it doesn’t address the only issue WIRED raised. They recommend the out door unit highly. It’s not like they are hating on the product.

Maybe consider addressing the concern in the next product refresh instead. The screen really should be bigger. I can’t say I’ve had similar experience with the screen degrading over time, maybe they just got a bad one…but the size? pfft. Thats fair.