You can either have AI be honest or AI become a marketing tool.

You can either have AI be honest or AI become a marketing tool. The two are fundamentally incompatible. You won't get it to push your products when users ask what's the best XYZ - either because it'll be too honest to lie or because it'll be too expensive for you.

Posted by pluc on Mar 23, 2026, 11:44 AM

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