These companies want to have their cake and eat it, too. They want it to be legal for them to use AI to jack prices up to the absolute limit we’re willing to pay, but don’t want to let us use it to find a better deal. Fuck 'em. Especially fuck Amazon. It’d be funny if the result of this was that Perplexity specifically omitted Amazon from that search, so their users were always directed to competitors, instead of sometimes.
These companies want to have their cake and eat it, too. They want it to be legal for them to use AI to jack prices up to the absolute limit we’re willing to pay, but don’t want to let us use it to find a better deal. Fuck 'em. Especially fuck Amazon. It’d be funny if the result of this was that Perplexity specifically omitted Amazon from that search, so their users were always directed to competitors, instead of sometimes.