AI chatbots are taking over as the main way that people use the internet outside social media — and that includes shopping. It makes it pretty concerning, then, that they still have a bad habit of recommending shady websites that rip users off instead of providing the product they’re looking for. A new study conducted by Podqi and reported on by The Verge found that ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity — some of the industry’s leading chatbots — all showed shoppers risky sites that impersonated real retailers, puppeted dead ones, or…
