[AriedK]

So how long do we have until companies can pay to be in the system prompt to be recommended for certain queries?

[SoftTalker]

My speculation: It's almost certainly already happening.

[LunaSea]

Yes, it's called "tool partnerships" and Microsoft has been doing it heavily for Copilot.

[righthand]

Can’t you just game the SEO and Google will eat your result thus pointing you to whichever service/product?

It’d be spam generated answers from seo spam. Which is definitely already happening.

[nicbou]

Those AIs are operating at a loss. Sooner or later they will seize enough market share for investors to demand returns.