That directly tanks the entire value of AI though.

As an advanced research engine, knowing it will reliably only recommend you sponsored products means it's worthless - and worse it will be primed to advocate for sponsored products.

Then the whole thing becomes a scam engine, because check out what Facebook ads look like today.

That’s like claiming that “as an advanced search engine, knowing that Google promoted sponsored products and reranks its algorithms accordingly sometimes means it’s worthless”

Regardless of if that’s true, it’s clearly still a huge business opportunity. And you point out Facebook ads are a scam yet they bring in $164B/year and growing. Regardless of value judgement, there’s clearly a lot of money to chase.