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AI Compares Home Tech
Silentpoisen asks AI to help him shop for a TV and a router, then catches it giving two opposite, equally confident answers to the same question depending only on how he asked it.
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The first answer is pure marketing noise: "immersive," "future-proof," "cinema-grade," and nothing useful.
A deliberate trap: he asks AI to argue for a TV, then against the same TV, and gets two equally convincing essays.
The router advice flips direction every single time he rephrases the question.
The one moment AI actually saves him money, by talking him out of an upgrade he didn't need.
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