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Comment by sebastiennight

As a marketer with a couple of decades of experience I can tell you that there is way more financial incentive in "slightly persuading [consumer] to tilt towards [product] in their next purchase, and spend more and earlier" than there ever will be towards "next-level unbiased tutor in anything".

The "super tutor" stuff that is always mentioned as the utopian outcome (along with "cures for cancer") is, unsurprisingly, never something being worked on by the person or lab quoting these examples.

I guess anything goes in B2B settings, but there is a valid reason to be cautious about these advances when it comes to mass-market consumer-facing applications.

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