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It’s “<apology>-brown” and the item appears black but is listed as brown. It’s possible that they are using GPT to translate from another language. I think I’ve read about listings for other pieces of furniture inadvertently offending people by using the Spanish word for “black” due to similar mixups.


Woah, that must be it. I couldn't figure it out, but that explains everything. Jesus, that's ridiculous.




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