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Hard Fork · The Wirecutter Show: Tips for Using A.I. Smartly With Kevin Roose · 30 Dec 2025 podcast

The ways that they do this are not always clear or transparent.

I think it's very fair to not only ask whether people are gaming these chatbot results for shopping queries, but also whether the AI companies themselves are going to start prioritizing the companies that they have

business relationships with in their search results.

So we don't have any examples of this happening right now, but for example, OpenAI now has partnerships with Zillow and a bunch of other companies.

So maybe in the future, if you are searching for real estate on ChatGPT, the first results that you get served will be from Zillow rather than one of their competitors.

Now, that is not happening yet that we know of, but I think it's very fair to question the sort of integrity of these chatbot results, especially as companies are spending more and more money to try to game them.

Um, AI hardware is slower to happen than AI software.

And so there actually aren't that many, like what I would consider like good AI hardware products yet.

I have tried, uh, robot vacuums, as you mentioned, I have two of them.

Their names are Bruce Roos and Bruce Roos Deuce.

They are sort of use various forms of AI, but they are not like, it's not like they're powered by like chat GPT or anything.

It's like a just different, different kind of AI.

Yeah.

I've tried the new Alexa Plus, which is their sort of AI enhanced experience from Amazon.

And that was pretty terrible because while it can do all of these cool things that the original Alexa could not do.

like write you a bedtime story or synthesize some complicated topic for you or find you a recipe.

You cannot do things like set timers reliably, which is arguably the best thing that the original Alexa could do.

So they still need to do some work on that.

I'm excited to try the new AirPods, which have the language translation AI feature built into them, where someone can be talking to you in words

Russian or Japanese and you can kind of hear them in your native language.

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