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Recency bias in AI shopping assistants is a recurring theme on WindowsForum, where users discuss how tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot often recommend outdated products. A hands-on test requesting an Android smartwatch revealed these assistants frequently steer shoppers toward older models and miss recent releases, undermining their usefulness. The discussions highlight the gap between AI convenience and accurate, up-to-date recommendations, emphasizing the need for better handling of temporal data in AI systems.
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    AI Shopping Assistants Stuck in the Past: Recency and Bias in Buying

    The holiday shopping season has become a proving ground for four of the biggest AI platforms — ChatGPT, Google’s Gemini, Perplexity, and Microsoft Copilot — but a hands‑on test with a simple request for an Android smartwatch exposes a recurring problem: these assistants can be impressively...