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Comment by jay_kyburz | Hacker News Reader

Gross.

I need facts about products, not a salesman convincing me to buy their products.

When I want to buy something like an air fryer, I either want something to either tell me the best overall air fryer, or the best one for me (“best air fryer for individuals with small kitchens”). I don’t want to do a whole bunch of research with just the raw specs to try to determine which is the best one for a person like me.

I could be nice to have an AI ask me questions about what I hope to use it for, what kind of space I have, and what my budget is, and then give me some recommendations.

This service exists, you know. It's called going to a store and asking.

Yes, but imagine having that service 24/7 available from everywhere and for almost every product imaginable?

GPT with ads wouldn't provide that service. All that would provide is a masterfully crafted, possibly false argument for why you should buy the product that paid for placement. You can already get that with google minus the conman pitch. So how is this even an improvement?

You wont get an honest answer from somebody taking money to sell one particular brand of air fryer. That would be like typing "air fryer" into Google Search and buying the first ad result.

When has a degraded product experience ever stopped advertisers? Even the famously UX-oriented Apple has inserted all sorts of upsell notifications, and nags into modern devices.

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