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I built a fake review detector API because I got tired of not being able to trust product reviews

Fake reviews are everywhere. Anyone who's bought something online has probably been burned by them at some point — a product with 500 five star reviews that turns out to be garbage.

I wanted a programmatic way to flag them so I built an API that does it.

Send it any review text and it comes back with a fake score from 0-100, a verdict of genuine, suspicious, or likely fake, and up to three reasons why it flagged it.

It catches things like overly enthusiastic language, disclosure of free products, vague non-specific praise, and other patterns that show up consistently in incentivized or fake reviews.

Useful if you're building a marketplace, running a review platform, or just want to sanity check reviews before trusting them.

Listed it on RapidAPI with a free tier if you want to try it: https://rapidapi.com/flusnot/api/fake-review-detector1

Built it in a day. Happy to answer any questions.

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