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  • The ability to win the buy box is exceptionally predictable.

    It is based on a combination of factors. The price point, fulfillment method, shipping cost, and feedback provided by customers about each individual seller.

    If I am the brand owner, using Fulfillment by Amazon, have the lowest price, and good seller feedback, I will win.

    If you come on the listing a lower price, no shipping cost, and equivalent feedback, but you are shipping the item yourself and have a slightly lower feedback rating, you will not win the buy box.

    The system is not rigged against the customer. Amazon is attempting to improve the customer experience, with price just being part of it






  • While I would like to be in a world where knowledge is free, this is apples and oranges.

    OpenAI can purchase a textbook and read it. If their AI uses the knowledge gained to explain maths to an individual, without reproducing the original material, then there’s no issue.

    The difference is the student in your example didn’t buy their textbook. Someone else bought it and reproduced the original for others to study from.

    If OpenAI was pirating textbooks, that would be a wholly separate issue.