That's what i told my friend when they mentioned that their clanker recommended the most expensive stuff when asked. Sure, the top result from google will be given the priority, but when parameters can sneakily be adjusted to favour people who paid them, then we will never know what being recommended is an ad or not.

Yes, with openai, or Google. That's why I hope we can move more to FOSS agents. Currently, big tech uses our data against us to try and manipulate us.

With big data processing being more available, things like price checking and review checking can be automated. The problem is its always cat and mouse. Browser extensions started by finding you discount codes and automatically entering them. Then they started to mine your data and swap referral codes to theirs as they enshittified.

LLM's are here to stay nut they are not groundbreaking in the way businesses hope, replacing workers. They are useful in replacing tasks. They are just not consistently good at those tasks. They shift the cognitive effort in many cases. Well, we should use them to shift the effort back onto corporations.

Either way, you could have your own LLM agent and run it locally

Ignoring everything else, that wouldn't work. Your local llm instance, to recommend you new movies, would have to scour the internet to summarize information about them.

Boom, thats the vector of it getting steered towards greatest quarterly revenue.

Or even better, don’t be lazy and curate your own interests.

My high school motto was “Faber Quisque Fortunae” (each man creates their own destiny). That means that You need to take responsibility for your own actions and decisions. You don’t outsource living.