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teekerttoday at 6:52 AM1 replyview on HN

The “nice” thing with AI is that the nudging can be so subtle you don’t even realize you’re being influenced for money.


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ethbr1today at 7:33 AM

What people think commercial AI is: a friend

What it actually is: a salesperson

It took the mass public a long time (15 years?) to realize search engines had shifted from the former to the latter, and that allowed Google to leverage that misplaced trust into huge profits.

Expect commercial AI to be the same, unless it's explicitly set up otherwise (read: Kagi assistant).

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