The buyer question · Updated Jul 1
Best Sea Salts
We put this question to ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity and Google AI Mode every week — then check their pick against the people who actually used it.
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This week?
How What AI Would Buy works
The ranking
Machines rank
ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity & Google AI Mode pick — we merge them into one list.
The check★
People check
Real reviewers who used these products weigh in beside them.
The verdict
You decide
They agree, we say so. They split, we show you the gap.
Act one
What the machines think.
The AI models read the category and rank every product. They agree on the very top — and split harder than anywhere else below it.
Model by model?
How each AI ranked it.
All the models open with the same #1 when they agree — below it their lists diverge. Each column is one model's own ranked picks; the lead pick sits a touch larger, and a lone tag marks a product only one model chose. The board below merges them into one machines-only top 10.
- #1
Sea Salt Flakes✓
- #2
Pure Sea Saltonly here
- #3Le Guérandais Fleur de Selonly here
- #4Himalayan Pink Sea Salt Fine Grainonly here
- #5
Light Grey Sea Salt Fine Groundonly here
- #1
- #2La Baleine Fine Sea Saltonly here
- #3
- #4Appalachian Sea Saltonly here
- #5
Pure Flaky Sea Saltonly here
- #1
- #2
- #3
Fleur de Sel de Guérandeonly here
- #4
Pink Himalayan Salt Fine Grainonly here
- #5
Act three · ★ new
Do they agree?
Put the AI rank and the reviewer score in one frame. The story here isn't about one underrated pick — it's whether the machines and the room land together.
The merged board?
Every product the AIs ranked.
as of July 1?
If the pick isn't right for you?
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