What ChatGPT is doing when someone asks for an agent
The question is almost never realtor near me. It is a situation: we are moving for work in the spring, we have a three bedroom in a named town, who should we talk to and what will it cost us. The assistant replies with a paragraph and a short list of agents by name.
To write that paragraph it needs facts it can state plainly: where you work, how you are paid, how long you have been doing it, which brokerage you are with and whether other people say the process was handled well. When it cannot find them, it names an agent where it can.
That makes this a legibility contest rather than a popularity one. The agent who is easiest to describe correctly is the agent who gets described.