I was looking for a slice of pizza around Astor place and this place came up on Google Reviews as 4.9 with tons of reviews. If you look at the pizza itself its a very run of the mill NYC slice. Something seemed off so I was looking into the reviews history and there are droves of 5* reviews from seemingly fake users that have random names and 5* all aspects of the business. Some others have descriptions that read like AI slop. Paying for influencer reviews or giving freebies for good reviews are one thing, but this blatant buying of reviews is pretty crazy to me. Not sure what can be done and how prevalent this is but it will just ruin google reviews if it continues unchecked
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by IIMsmartII