If they can figure out how to get the right kickbacks/referrals without compromising user trust and really nail the search and aggregation of data this could be a real money-maker.
Lol what a terrible idea. Why not just hand every decision you'll ever make to AI?
Nobody needs critical thinking or anything. Just have AI do it so you save $3 and 4 minutes.
This kind of task is perfect for AI in a way that doesn't take away too much from the human experience. I'll keep my art, but shopping can die off.
Not the current form of AI. I regularly use Project Farm to find the best "insert tool". In an ideal world a robot runs all of these tests in perpetuity covering every physical appliance possible (with every variation, etc.). However, current AI cannot do this. Obviously LLMs can't do this because they don't operate in the physical world.
Maybe I am deeply suboptimal, but typically this kind of decision takes me far more than 4 minutes.
If they had some direct feed of quality product information it could be interesting. But who would trust that to be impartial?
If the answer is "no because that's an ad", well, how do you know that the output from ChatGPT isn't all just products that have bought their rank in the results?
EDIT: Like, have you actually tried this? If you ask it to summarise what Reddit is saying with sources, that’s pretty much exactly what you get.
This is a complete contradiction. Once there's money involved in the recommendation you can no longer trust the recommendation. At a minimum any kind of referral means that there's strong incentive to get you to buy something instead of telling you "there are no good options that meet your criteria". But the logical next step for this kind of system is companies paying money to tilt the recommendation in their favour. Would OpenAI leave that money on the table? I can't imagine they would.
i'm trying to envision a situation in which the former doesn't cancel out the latter but i'm having a pretty hard time doing that. it seems inevitable that these LLM services will just become another way to deliver advertised content to users.
As another commenter points out, "not compromising user trust" seems at odds with "money-maker" in the long-term. Surely Google and other large tech companies have demonstrated that to you at this point? I don't understand why so many people think OpenAI or any of them will be any different?