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Just heard this today - co worker used an LLM to find him some shoes that fit. Basically prompted it to find specific shoes that fit wider/narrower feet and it just scraped reviews and told him what to get. I guess it worked perfectly for him.

I hate this sort of thing - however this is why normies love LLM's. It's going to be the new way every single person uses the internet. Hell, on a new win 11 install the first thing that comes up is copilot saying "hey use me i'm better than google!!"

Frustrating.

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[โ€“] ryanvgates 79 points 1 day ago (8 children)

I don't think people realize what's going to quickly happen is that people making the models will start extorting brands to get a better ranking. You want our model to recommend your brand then pay us $X. Then any perceived utility about reading reviews vanishes kind of like with fake reviews today.

[โ€“] CheesyFingers@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

You seem to imply that they would care about that at all. They won't. It's already happening in the shops they frequent (Amazon) and they don't care.

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