Which then begs the question if I was the user: "Am I being served an ad or is ChatGPT taking in a bunch of product information and giving me an objective answer to what I'm looking for?"

This would create a ton of hesitation to use this for product recommendations if I knew ChatGPT wasn't using its extensive input for products and reviews and coming back with an objective answer for me.

I guess at this point would we even know the difference? Is it possible this is already happening?