ChatGPT can only do this now because the information is essentially freely available. Booking.com etc post their pages on the web to get traffic. In the world OpenAI is imagining, people will rarely if ever interact with the internet directly, it’ll instead all be through intermediary LLMs. In that world, the organisations that own authoritative information about hotel prices and locations will not make that freely available to LLMs, they will sell it. ChatGPT is trying to get ahead by encouraging them to embed themselves directly into their platform so they get first dibs on this kinda stuff before they put up the walls.
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