Comment by ssl-3

That seems like a poor forecast. I've been buying things from Amazon since they really were just a book store, and for this entire time it has seemed like their search has been Not Good.

For instance: I have a small, old cast iron pan that I use to cook eggs. I wanted to buy a very small spatula (or turner, depending on vernacular) to use with it. But the harder I worked to integrate the concept of "small" into the search box, the bigger the spatulas were in the Amazon search results.

It was like being in opposite-land. I ultimately gave up and bought nothing.

But sure: It's absolutely possible that the fashion-oriented utility of a connected LLM will degraded from wherever it is today, and become every bit as terrible as the Amazon search box has always been.

I hope that it doesn't happen, but it certainly can happen.