I tried “mens cycling helmet specialized” via normal search and AI search.

On the surface, AI showed results of £45 while normal results showed £39.99 and this particular result didn’t show at all in the AI search, even when clicking more.

However, small fine print was the £39.99 had a £4.99 delivery. Can it be that AI is optimised for full price including shipping?

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cyanydeez 8 hours ago | parent [-]

Also, not defending AI, but id gladly install a ublockoriginAI to filter out scam products and low quality knock offs. Would never trust google to do this.

In your example, any helmet by a manufacturer who has zero safety tests, regulatory stamps, warranty, etc, should be filtered out.

Any product with anomalous price needs heavy scrutiny.

	▲	kccqzy 7 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		GP included the word “specialized” which is a reputable manufacturer. Without seeing anything else, I’d automatically be inclined to believe that any helmets sold by them has warranty and safety tests.
	▲	Legend2440 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		>Also, not defending AI, but id gladly install a ublockoriginAI to filter out scam products and low quality knock offs. I'm still waiting for an AI-powered adblock that removes ads by their semantic content instead of a fixed rule list. I think I'll be waiting a while though because of the performance cost of running an LLM.
	▲	thrance 7 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		There's a blocklist for ublockorigin, but I can't really recommend it. It's a bit over-zealous and sometimes blocks useful stuff. Link: https://github.com/laylavish/uBlockOrigin-HUGE-AI-Blocklist