OpenAI is on a treadmill. It has vast amounts of investor billions pouring into it and needs to show results. Meanwhile, open source AI is snapping at its heels in every direction.
Beyond obviously malicious stuff like this, if people are going to have AI autonomously purchase things, I wonder if we might see stuff like ads designed not to influence human purchasing decisions, but to make someone's AI assistant think that a given product is a better match for what it was asked to buy than it really is