Yes, I feel this is like when I look for a hotel and see a low price through a sketchy website but it is because it is a non-refundable member-only price. I wonder what the actual click through prices are. Sellers might try to serve higher prices to AI models but I'm not sure that would be useful to them.

Yeah and I know one issue with this is that sites like Amazon tend to have greater protections against scraping from AIs, so there is not much AI providers could do if they wanted to find the true lowest price.

I think it's a good thing if this forces manufacturers to list honest prices instead of inflated ones.

Then again, that makes it more expensive for the inconspicuous buyer who has no idea, which is a considerably larger population than HN readers.