Artificial Shoppers and Attention Competition
We study how AI shopping interfaces affect price competition, platform profit, and consumer welfare. A platform hosts two of three products of different quality. Without AI, consumers compare the hosted pair under salience distortion and overweight whichever attribute, price or quality, stands out. Under assistance, an AI assistant recommends the two products with the highest true utility,…
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