From: ng-contact@mydomain.tld.invalid   
      
   > But what if the visitors to your site are AI bots, looking for deals   
   > on behalf of a human that ends up one step removed from contact with   
   > you? Then all those ads and extra persuasive messages fall on the   
   > worst kind of deaf ears -- no ears at all. The human says to the AI   
   > agent “get me a ride to the airport”, the agent goes away to the Uber   
   > and Lyft sites (or whatever else turns up), and picks the cheapest   
   > option at that moment. The human doesn’t know which company is   
   > providing the ride that turns up on their doorstep, and they won’t   
   > care. The providers of these products have become mere commodity   
   > suppliers.   
      
   I fail to see how that is different from having a human assistant or   
   concierge handle things for you: the assistant is also not gonna   
   randomly impulse buy stuff on your behalf, nor are they gonna be swayed   
   by ads related to a product they're not buying for themselves.   
      
   Why are they not also suing basically every hotel on this planet? Hell,   
   you can access pretty cheaply the basic services that used to be   
   reserved to those who could afford to hire a dedicated personal   
   assistant! After all, we're talking booking rides and finding stuff on   
   Amazon, things that even without AI can be provided en-masse.   
      
   This seems to me like a desperate attempt to mandate outdated business   
   models stay relevant by law, as the previous business model relied on   
   certain services staying unavailable to most of the population, which   
   isn't what happened as those services were both automated and the   
   non-automated versions also just straight-up became cheaper.   
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