French consumers seeking to boycott US struggle to identify American products
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Some French consumers are looking for ways to do without American products to protest President Donald Trump’s policies on Ukraine. But close trading ties and the nature of multinational companies is…

Some French consumers are looking for ways to do without American products to protest President Donald Trump’s policies on Ukraine. But close trading ties and the nature of multinational companies is making it tough to identify which products to boycott.

    • Blaze (he/him) English
      21•14 days ago

      https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/39212308

      Sadly Made O’Meter seems to be basically a wrapper for ChatGPT 4o-mini and the quality of the responses reflects that. It will confidently hallucinate incorrect owners for brands. It’s only really reliable for well-known brands that you probably know the origin of anyways

      • @egrets@lemmy.worldEnglish
        4•14 days ago

        The plural of “anecdote” is not “data”, I know, but I tried three products (Swedish nicotine pouches, British vitamin supplements, French deodorant) and it got all three perfectly.

        • @Djinn_Indigo@lemm.eeEnglish
          2•13 days ago

          I mean, it kind of is though? It’s a handy sentiment, but if you think about it, good data is just a well-curated collection of anecdotes. 🤷

          Sorry, bit of a tangent. 😅