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Re:A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business by MattGaiser on Friday December 23, 2022 @06:29PM (#34111898)
> Even if Google can easily offer the same , and even superior functionality, it's much harder to cram ads into a chat conversation.

Just have it bias the recommendations, like spammers on Reddit do.

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Re:A New Chat Bot Is a ‘Code Red’ for Google’s Search Business by the_duke on Friday December 23, 2022 @06:35PM (#34111956)
Sure, but that would hopefully be made illegal very quickly.

The EU already has pretty strict rules around product placement, which is quite similar to what purchased bias would be, only worse.

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