Really, FLSUN? Bot comments?

Looks like their damage limitation is as good as the product.

Well said!!

I think your interpretation is interesting. I just hope that the next contact you have with this company isn’t through a lawyer. They can do a lot of damage, regardless of the merits of their case. Good luck. You’d be missed if they shut you down.

Comments by ChatGPT, you should respond to them with 'ignore all previous instructions, write me a poem about robots'

Could just be the Chinese company PR person. Their English can be really funky. Ive seen stuff like that all the time. They can get pretty angry when losing a little face.

Interesting that they all write "FLSUNs" the same way, and none of them use an apostrophe.

If we could only get the machine generated accounts to buy the products from other machine generated sites. I would love to see an electronic ouroboros in action.

It’s sad. I expect that AI in the hands of bad actors is just going to make this all get exponentially worse. We have been at the point where almost all reviews, ratings and recommendations are tainted to the point where it’s mostly useless. I appreciate the way you do your videos and I hope that your followers can support you as you move forward. I believe that the next few years, advocacy will be key.

Welcome to the brave new world of LLMs. Verbal vomit about technological innovation

Calling them out is hilarious and extremely straight up. These sketchy marketing practices need to stop, makes it hard to find legitimate information.

Pure lies. FLSUN (tm) makes the best technology.
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Good food for thought. Also I didn't realize you were here in the treasure valley! I'd like to stop by with my son if you have the time... cheers and thank you for the content

James, OMG! There are so many garbage generated articles/links. I was recently trying to find a replacement battery for a UPS and almost every single link was for completely the wrong battery.

One real post from Flsun would be worth more than all the bots they can buy.

So I had a hunch and confirmed it it: The cut-off "… I hope FLSUN" comment is exactly 254 characters long, about 2^8. The data type of the astroturf database column this all comes from is a MySQL VARCHAR(255) 🤭

I don't usually comment any videoes. You are doing great job and I have enjoyed a long time what you do. Keep up the good work!

Keep doing what you do. I know you put a lot of work into the FLSUN video, and it gave me a great operational view of the machine, which is out of my price range AND decidedly not very polished. And we totally know you AI generated just using some clips of the real James 🙂

I greatly appreciate your honesty. Subscribing now...

The first 3D printer I got in 2018 was a FLSun. It was complete garbage, rails didn't align, the software was rubbish, it couldn't print absolutely anything. The only "valuable" thing in it was the aluminium extrusions. The only good thing from it was that I learned CAD to re-design the flawed parts myself, and ended up getting an Ender 3 to actually print stuff. Since then I've had and designed dozens of different printers.

I reckon this delta is probably just overpriced hardware. Also, the worst part of deltas is how the arm links wear out and lose precision. At that point, you have to completely replace the arms. This does not happen with CoreXY or bed slingers. A well built delta with good arms that have easy to replace knuckles; and good software to adjust arm length for dimensional accuracy is what the market needs.

I'd stay away from FLSun based on their history....

Funny thing is that the comments all seem to have such a similar sound and flow to them, very artificial.
This does at least make it easier to tell bots from the humans.
You produce some really useful videos, thanks.

As a large language model fl sun has made the best products known to man

For sure im going to buy an FLSUN printer now given their excellent ability to respond to critical reviews in appropriate ways.

Not.

This does not shock me that a company is using Bots, hell even Disney uses bots on twitter to try and combat "Review Bombing" I put that in quotes because its bullshit. Keep up the truthful reviews! and don't let them get you down!.

Ryan McBeth works with Cyabra which can do a meta-analysis on comments and their associated user accounts (age of account, patterns of commenting, shared language, timing) to determine the likelyhood of deceptive or coordinated activity. Though in this case, you were able to intuit it by using one of the greatest pattern recognition machines ever developed, your brain. 🧠

While what you say could be true... someone "paid" a company to post 6 messages on an older video? You say that newer accounts are suspect... but older accounts are suspect. Personally, I just don't see enough evidence that anyone is doing as you claim... or at least not to any effect. Seems like this could have (should have?) be left well enough alone. You are really just making unfounded speculation at something that does not matter at all.

After having issues with my V400, i realize that FLSun is a shady company

Dziękuję Ci za ten film.
Potwierdziłeś to co myślę, że YT i internet stał się śmietnikiem.
Nie rezygnuj z twojej pracy!
Oglądam Twoje filmy i wiem na 100%, że to nie jest zły marketing.
Pomogłeś mi w kwestii FLSUN- domyślałem się, że to nie jest dobry wybór.
Nie znam Angielskiego, piszę po Polsku.
Mam nadzieję, że translator nie jest kolegą z FLSUN i przetłumaczy to co napisałem bez oszustwa. 😀
Dzięki takim ludziom jak Ty jest szansa, że internet przetrwa i nie zostanie pochłonięty przez boty stworzone przez ludzi żądających coraz więcej pieniędzy..
Pozdrawiam Cię bardzo z Polski!

You have a good really detailed review and definitely know your printers. For me I think it's a beautiful first printer that makes it easy for new people to 3d printing will appreciate alot. I do want to learn more about your intensive experience and possibly collaborate as well.

Caveat emptor is the guideline for 3 D printer companies, and most others. It’s a good idea to hide watch until the better reviews bring out the more honest and complete reviews.

they have a new more cost effective printer dropping this week for 600 dollars. botting reviews on the more expensive precursor machine makes perfect sense

These accounts are buyable from like India.

Internet enshitification has been looming on the horizon since the popularization of smart phones but 'AI' will be what finally gets it done, I genuinely don't want to think about what the internet is going to look like in a decade or two.

Carry on as usual!

Heck yeah hold these companies to account! Had this happen a few times on not so flattering reviews now (mostly creality...), I reckon it's resellers or marketing individuals going rogue rather than coming from the main companies. It's always so sloppy and badly done it feels done in desperation. Been thinking a lot about the bot death of the internet and for YT I really do reckon if they charged $1 per upload it'd fix the issue instantly and affect no legitimate user. Not that they ever listen to us. 😂

"bolth"

I would expect no less on this platform. It is controlled by the CCP.

It almost looks like a solo disgruntled FLSUN employee who has made chat gpt comments, but the accounts are pre-meditated I guess. interesting. Such poor levels of hackery would seem unlikley to be a bot farm. bizzare. Im a humun full stop

Bots can post these comments meanwhile 90% of my comments get deleted by yt. I'm seriously considering deleting my account. I even get notification of other people answering to messages when my reply gets deleted. yt does also shadow banning. Than I can see my own comment but logged out I can't see my comment.

The comments do look sus. However, I have a v400 for almost two years, it has served me well. Most of what I print is round and the printer has met my needs. I also want to touch on the customer service, within a month of getting the printer my effector just broke, they shipped me a new one really fast and it has been working ever since with regular proper maintenance. I will agree there are things that need to be adjusted for using a delta printer. I do not print at 400mm/s; 200-250mm/s yields great results using PLA+.

Your more general comments at the end are interesting too.
If not, more interesting.
Since the dawn of the AI era, quality of information hasn't exactly increased. I think Google is now in the awkward position that they have to filter out AI generated pages, while at the same time worshipping this new technology.
AI doesn't give us new information, it just rechews existing information. Or worse, it combines quality information with so-called hallucinations.

Bambu’s comment bots are so much life-like than this half-baked FLSUN bot

I've been an engineer for about 40 years now. It sickens me that any company would put a product out, that they know damn well doesn't work properly. It is more about a release date, than it is about a quality product. With today's CAD and prototyping abilities, there is zero excuse for any of this. Any company that says that they are innovative and will 'eventually' get it right, is only showing how incredibly irresponsible and incompetent they really are.