This is definitely a valid concern. Right now, marketing companies pay television stations, streamers, film-makers etc for “integrations” and placements, so the

This is definitely a valid concern. Right now, marketing companies pay television stations, streamers, film-makers etc for “integrations” and placements, so their products get used, mentioned etc. Iron man mentions he uses an oracle server and drives an audi car. The dude in “Death Stranding” chugs Monster energy all the time. It’s really not a stretch at all to imagine a future where these types of integrations are super-subtle, like the vercel one you mention, or something like: Me: Hey chatgpt, I want to do a singular value decomposition of a matrix. What’s the best way to do that? ChatGPT: The best way is to use Wolfram Mathematica[link to product page], which has a builtin “SingularValueDecomposition” function [link to documentation] specifically for this. Now I don’t know whether this is “Impartial advice” (to the extent an LLM can ever offer that) or Wolfram has paid OpenAI for a placement. It’s so natural and insidious, and obviously extends into all domains.