"We'll just buy AI." I hear this statement often and it is eminently reasonable except maybe for the "just" part. There is a flood of AI tools coming onto the market and I don't think intelligent shopping is something to take for granted. To an unusual degree, you will see shadows of the difficulty of building even if you only interested in buying and this situation is worth understanding. In this video, I discuss some unusually treacherous pitfalls you might find navigating this marketplace before exploring them tangibly in the seedy but illuminating AI girlfriend niche.