Agents like this
under the control of users would be pretty great. Man, would companies ever
hate if we could use the kinds of tools they use against us, against them. No more shopping for the best price: "ChatGPT, what's the lowest price on a new X, brand Y, model Z? And give me the URL to the product page." No more burning our human time talking to companies' robots: "ChatGPT, get through this shitty phone tree and let me know when you have a person". A
true digital assistant. Couple with crowd-sourced data (receipt scanning, junk-mail grocery flier scanning, or the AR goggles that are probably not
that far off) and you could even do stuff like have it plot optimal IRL grocery shopping for you (lowest total price on this list of goods, value my time at $X/hr, and factor in cost of transportation... and also ChatGPT assembled the list for me in the first place, because I had it create this week's dinner menu)
ChatGPT as a service that can be used to mislead us to trick us out of our money on the behalf of megacorps, like the entire rest of the Web has become? To "promote" things to us against our interests? Meh. Call me when it's mine and will obey me and will never lie to me or serve someone else's priorities over mine, and I'll be interested.