We study a pricing and information provisioning game between a better informed seller (such as a retailer) and its customers. The seller is (ex-post) better informed about product availability and can choose how to communicate this information to the customers. Using a Bayesian persuasion...

We build a model of online behavioral manipulation driven by AI advances. A platform dynamically offers one of n products to a user who slowly learns product quality. User learning depends on a product's "glossiness,' which captures attributes that make products appear more attractive than they...