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There is an argument to be made for automatically downweighting (be it training epochs or pagerank rating) anything with affiliate links. But I guess it would be trivial to hide them behind a redirect.

That being said, I recently asked the Bing chatbot about the difference between two similar sounding printer models, and it gave a good explanation which I previously couldn't quickly find via Google. In case of Bing it is sometimes not completely clear to which degree its answer depends on the Web search, if it performed one, and to which degree it is just answering from its background knowledge (which could be prone to hallucination, but is less "gullible", so to speak). It provides sources, but not everything it says is necessarily present in the source. I'm actually surprised how quickly Bing is able to search (load and read) multiple websites, given that the loading times are not always trivial. It turns out they are much faster at reading than at typing. Indeed, each forward pass reads the entire context window, so once for every generated token!