It is distracting you because part of your mental focus is on "is this AI".
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This is mostly about human preferences right. If software is just taken as the end product, does it matter what "feels" good and doesn't?
And this interpretation is charitable, assuming that they wanted the patient to feel better via placebo. A different (and more likely) interpretation being they just wanted to charge for something extra.
Good job on mocking others though :*
I think this is pretty clear - No.
Of course there are no good options for open hardware, but that is a related but separate problem.
That said, to a human also, the order in which candidates are presented to them will psychologically influence their final decision.