DeepSeek Loves Stumptown Coffee, Hates Brooks Sneakers
I tested four Chinese AI models to see what kind of stuff they're into.
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I launched a fake deodorant brand to see if AI would notice.
3 weeks later it was outranking a brand with clinical trials.
I asked Claude, Gemini and ChatGPT to tell me what to buy 8,700 times.
Product recommendation consensus exists among top models, even while they're referencing different sources.