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Why does e-commerce need fine-tuned AI?

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Drawn from Lutz Finger's Forbes column, LinkedIn writing, and Cornell teaching. Sources are cited inline so you can read the originals.

Why general-purpose LLMs aren’t enough.

To explore this question, I looked at one industry: e-commerce. In my online certificate programs, I’ve explored AI use cases across many industries such as healthcare, media, coffee, finance and e-commerce. While healthcare tends to be slowest to adopt AI, e-commerce consistently leads.

ShopTalk 2025: Just 1% Of Vendors Use Generative AI To The Max · Forbes

Google’s search is losing relevance for e-commerce, and Amazon’s homepage is losing traffic. The future belongs to AI assistants like ChatGPT, Claude and Perplexity. For brands to stay visible, they must embrace generative engine optimization, also called large language model optimization or answer engine optimization.

AI Is Changing The Rules Of Web Traffic — A GEO Playbook For Online Retailers · Forbes


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