@jerryjliu0: "a corollary is that information about product quality will become more important and impactful" This feels like the ne…
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讨论随着AI代理的普及，产品信息与质量评价将演变为新的SEO/AEO博弈场，公司会针对代理偏好的评测、基准与人类偏好进行优化，而真正客观的评测难以实现。
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“a corollary is that information about product quality will become more important and impactful”
This feels like the next evolution of SEO/AEO that every product will try to game. Even if agents do the equivalent of ~10 hours of research on a product, it’s less important on whether the product is actually better vs. the agent’s perception that the product is better.
Agents might do deep research on evals and benchmarks; yet anyone who’s worked on evals knows that it’s hard to create a truly unbiased one that can universally measure product quality. They might optimize for human preferences, in which case companies will optimize for user reviews and feedback.
Companies will optimize for whatever preferences the top AI models have been posttrained on.
Patrick Collison (@patrickc): Assorted things I’ve been mulling over regarding agents in the economy:
• Companies are in some sense the original superintelligence. It’s often the case that they can use their amortized cognitive surplus to advance their interests against those of certain consumers: relative
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