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> impartial consistent system for shopping

> for a lower price

Catalog is impartial, chatbot is ads pretending as advice.


I do agree with your conclusion, but the catalog in most online shops is certainly not impartial. Amazon sells the entire first page of search placement, for example.

But we know it and it's obvious.

Within a few years people will be accustomed to the idea of AI chatbots selling them stuff and it will be obvious then too. The first time paid placements appeared in a catalog, it was probably also not obvious then.

catalog ads are labeled. "what's the best something I can buy?" is begging for unlabeled ads that go against your interest. if you literally cannot tell between ad and not ad, you can't skip to actual results, it's useless.

Catalog is an ad, the SKU database behind the catalog is impartial (at least as much as it gets), but no one is giving you access to that.

Catalog is impartial? Then why are ~40% of every search I do on Amazon a sponsored product? There is no pure "catalog" especially with cheap crap coming out every day from no-name Chinese labels.

Am I the only one that think Amazon has gotten pretty awful in the last 5 years?


You can skip sponsored products

more like 20 years. Basically when they introduced third party sellers.

This is destined to either not be popular or be swarming with bots and stalkers. How you fight bots, abuse and all other problems of public posting and DMs? and how you make money for it?

> But the same amount of economic output, probably more, will be produced because of AI

> Society as a whole will be better off because there is more output

> better quality output

citation needed

> By whom will that output then be consumed?

So there's this thing called "waste"...

> If people don't have jobs they don't have money to buy and therefore ... prices will have to come down!

Yeah, and falling prices and unemployment are sure signs of boom and prosperity...

> government that shares the fruits of AI with everybody, by way of progressive taxation. Government, use the taxes you collect to give us free food

and you think though that never happened is now possible because?


and if they leak when you don't have the money to fix it, you just live for as long as possible with leaky pipes, then try to fix it yourself and MAYBE you shop for cheapest plumber possible. end result, plumber earns less because you are broke

Iran's source is the one who said they did it in the first place :facepalm: and it was confirmed by UK

As soon as they felt like denying it would be better for them they did and took down https://en.mehrnews.com/ where it was published. Unless you say mehr was defaced and the news were planted by Mossad


> The reason we felt the way we did was due to how little actual work any of us had to perform to become ‘compliant’, combined with a product practically devoid of any real AI

Guys guys, if only it had some of that real AI it would be all good!!


I'm not american but I see technically nothing wrong with MAGA for me. it doesn't mean you must be transphobe or homophobe etc. but what people do under MAGA is another thing. sometimes it feels like for them it means "run america into the ground" or "get rid of all the best about america". GRABA if you like

You mean things done under MAGA led by a president who said on national TV that Haitians are eating pets and led the “birther” conspiracy ?

Yep exactly what I mean

There are games online that work like that today

Who said anything about spellcheck?

GP said they weren't okay with someone using an AI to check for grammatical errors. If they would be okay with using software to check for spelling errors, I'd be interested to know why they're making that distinction. And I'd like to know what they think of autocorrect, which at least on the iPhone uses an on-device LLM nowadays.

"AI" can mean anything with machine learning. Spellchecker can use some sort of machine learning too. But what people mean when they say "AI" is LLM chatbot. But a spellchecker highlights mistakes, it doesn't suggest to rewrite the text arbitrarily like an LLM chatbot. So I totally understand how you can be for one and not other

By the way autocorrect on the iphone got worse recently, bunch of times it "corrected" the word to a wrong one for me


Wow, you’re arguing. What about predictive T9?


If you are letting an llm to browse around in your browser and stuff you ARE letting it spend your money.

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