We are gonna have fun with "can you suggest me a product to do XYZ"?

At least until now you could run a search to compare, etc. ...Imagine how biased the results can be when you ask "show the pro/con of each".

Less and less trustworthy.

If that happens to ChatGPT, it's useless to me.

I suspect the free version will tilt more in this direction until it becomes worse than useless. The current free offering is honestly too good to be true at present.

We all know that won't be the case forever. But I'm also pessimistically interested in the modern SEO tactics of optimizing your product to appear in model outputs.

What does ChatGPT use to do web searches? Is it Bing with sponsored results removed?

This last weekend I was using ChatGPT to help me select complementary neutral and trim colors for a room where I’d already picked out the accent wall color and other decor, because I got tired of wading through SEO-spam interior design blogs. I gave it quite a bit of detail about my general style, lighting conditions, even things like the various woods used in my flooring and furniture so it could be conscious of complementary undertones.

It would’ve been convenient if once I had the list from the conversation, I could’ve asked it to just order the sample paint chips from Benjamin Moore and have them sent to me. And by that point it knew quite a bit about the size and features of the room, maybe it could have added some requisite supplies to my Home Depot cart for pickup…

The real value is a tool that can act on all the conversational context in a relatively vendor agnostic way. Take my entire plan and use various agents to make it happen.

Aaaaaaand it’s gone. Please step aside, this chat is for people who will actually buy the sponsored products. Next please!