Is AI taking over audio gear research?

an audio dealer recommends talking to AI.  

It's getting better and better and better. I think ai deep analysis of all things audio is impressive to the nth degree.  Of course eventually you're gonna have to listen to something before making a purchase decision.

a lot depends on Web available source data and it's difficult to get a sense as to how extensive available material is being reviewed by AI, clearly it's vast.  The truly impressive aspects are continuing to improve inference capabilities. I am far from an expert in audio stuff but I do recognize some really impressive comments being made by AI. I find myself asking lots of questions about certain gear and asking for comparisons to other gear. I have a running thread that's probably the length of the Bible at this point and that's the better way to do it rather than doing a bunch of individual threads although now ChatGPT is accessing all the threads so it may not matter much but it's still better to keep it all within one extended thread.  I approach things with healthy skepticism.

ai takes initiative. It anticipate things I have not thought of. I am using ChatGPT pro. I think free Gemini AI sucks and make lots of errors.

I don't type into ChatGPT I dictate everything and that makes it more effective. I can use extended thoughts and questions and basically compose several sentences of content before I submit.  It can handle lots of twisted info. 

I thought I'd share all this.