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This marks the new age of "AI Optimization" where companies will strive to get their business featured into answers in ChatGPT.

The OP's example is Unwanted demand, but it clearly shows that ChatGPT can funnel potential customers towards a product or service.

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God I can just see a company using chatgpt to Astroterf huge amounts of data on the internet about their service to hopefully get that sludge feed back into their system and then become recommended. What a world.

I can think of a good way to generate all that astroturf content.

Isn't that just SEO in a nutshell though? Hopefully with more advancements in LLM's we can get more bullshit detection/discrimination against SEO.

> This marks the new age of "AI Optimization"

Or it marks the beginning of the next "AI Winter."

> but it clearly shows that ChatGPT can funnel potential customers towards a product or service.

And the next logical step is "chatgpt keywords advertising." Which is right back where we started.

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