For your next 10 purchases that you don't need within 3 days, use an llm to find the best choice for your needs (have been doing this and learning a lot on how the ideas I had about a product prior to purchasing missed many things I didn't knew I dind't know, and the llm helped to find better products) and ask the LLM to find alternative shops - you may be surprised and have the nice feeling of increasing choice in the world by allowing alternate stores to keep going.

eg. wanted to purchase a FIio KA17 DAC - amazon price £150, asked an llm for an alternative, found for £120 from a decent small audiovisual real store, ordered, delivered within 3 days.

Have found you can save money for purchases from cosmetics to garden fertilizer and grass seed to audiovisual and IT equipment.

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retired 5 hours ago | parent [-]

Why use an LLM for something that is a 5 second Google? Google Products is right there in the top. Forums will advice you on alternative products.

Am I getting old? I feel like a dinosaur still Googling things.

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ben_w 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Google's search results defaulting to starting with an LLM; and by the power of SEO, so are many of the search results themselves.

Having to add "reddit" to get genuine results was already a meme 3 years back: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrFv1O4dbqY&pp=ygUXZ29vZ2xlI...

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JKCalhoun 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

At this point in time…

…you've got to figure that Google is just as disgusting as Amazon in the ads/search dept.

LLMs seem positively naive in that regard. Just, you know, simply suggesting what their subsumption of the internet suggests.

(For now anyway.)

	▲	retired 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Doesn’t ChatGPT also recommend products from their advertisers first?