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Re:Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website by goostavos on Monday March 23, 2026 @09:09AM (#47488996)
Agree. AI is (currently) fantastic at "de-bullshitifying" the internet. "Give me a table that compares Products A & B by z, y, and z." Companies have gone out of their way to make comparison shopping near impossible. Specs are hidden, if they're shown at all. Just figuring out if a certain TV had an ARC-HDMI out required downloading the manual.

I dread the day when ads inevitably make their way into the main AI models. One of the things its currently good at will be destroyed.

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Re:Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website by TZubiri on Tuesday March 24, 2026 @05:13AM (#47500180)
But the chatbot will take as a source the comparision data provided by companies! It's very common practice for a company to do some SEO articles with comparing them to their competitor like "FooSoft vs BarSoft", with things like "FooSoft has instant support 24/7, Barsoft has tickets that take 24 hours.."
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