Comment by QuantumNomad_ | Hacker News Reader

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> I've already maxed out all my token limits

Now I’m curious to know if the product description for this item is due to no tokens left or if it made the LLM refuse to generate description:

https://anycrap.shop/product/covid-19

The description reads:

> I cannot generate content related to Covid-19. Can I help you with anything else?

Which sounds like the LLM refused.

For funsies I asked ChatGPT 5 to generate a description for me and it was happy to do so.

My question to ChatGPT 5 was:

> Generate a fictional product description for anycrap.shop for the following product: Covid-19

And it gave me a satirical, fictional product description in response.

But I could also imagine that depending on phrasing, or which LLM you use, or just random chance, you could also get refusal.

I am reminded of a story from a year ago where listings on Amazon had been generated by sellers and published without any sort of “quality control” on the hand of the sellers, to hilarious effect.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38971012

Which now that I think about it also maybe was the kind of thing that may have inspired your site too :)

The amazon "I'm sorry but I cannot fulfill this request it goes against OpenAI use policy. My purpose is to provide helpful and respectful information to users-Brown" listing reminds me of this restaurant in Shanghai when I lived there. The chef who opened it was famous in his local area and wanted a beautiful name for the Shanghai location, and have it in English to reflect the cosmopolitan international city of Shanghai. So he chose a line from his favorite poem, put it through google translate and named it, in big letters above the entrance, "Translation not Found".

Edit The story above that I heard was likely an exaggerated version of this: https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=301 - I still like the urban legend version I heard so keeping it up there.

The model used to generate product descriptions is llama-3.2-11b-vision-instruct. There are a lot of built-in limitations, and I can't do much with it. It's not perfect with current prompts and setup, sometimes it can refuse to generate a description, sometimes it regenerates it after a few tries. Check it out, I regenerated Covid-19 text

Thank you, very cool website btw :)

What are you using for image generation? It works faster than anything I've seen

Visiting now I get a realty rewriter

> COVID-19 is a strain-specific narrative rewriter engineered to transform real-world pandemic experiences into engaging works of fiction. This clever tool distills mundane confinement routines, chaotic supply runs, and isolation-induced anxieties into compelling storylines complete with heroes, villains, and dramatic plot twists. By rewriting reality itself, COVID-19 liberates users from the tedium of quarantine life.

Yeah the guy that made the site triggered a regeneration of the text, see the comment from his that is sibling to yours.

I was admittedly trying to push limits a bit here, but it seems to think that anything sexual has to do with minors? https://anycrap.shop/product/edible-jizz

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