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OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 14 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

“This type of frictionless experience has the potential to spark a new movement in”

Its like they have never used ai, these things are everything but frictionless.

The whole thing reads like an excuse to train on shopping data, promising to trow a bone to individual sellers so they wont complain as much.

[–] RandAlThor@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 hours ago

They have to find a way to make money right? lol It can't be an open money pit.

[–] lmr0x61@lemmy.ml -1 points 4 hours ago (2 children)

Exactly. You know what is frictionless?

  1. I type in “Amazon.com”(or any of a dozen different shopping platforms) in my browser
  2. I use the site’s search bar to look up the item I want
  3. I see which the suits my needs best out of the results
  4. I click “buy now”

I’m sorry OpenAI, but there’s really no realistically better way to shop for things online.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 1 points 4 minutes ago

Amazon is cancer and fuck anyone who supports them.

[–] doctortofu@piefed.social 13 points 3 hours ago

Are you using a time machibe to access Amazon in the past? Because for me the experience looks more like this:

  1. I type in "amazon.com" in my browser
  2. I use the search bar and get a bunch of sponsored results that are not what I was searching for at all and all use the same garbage photoshopped photos
  3. I scroll through pages upon pages of irrelevant dropshipped garbage offered by companies like JHUVOY, BRILGOVA and other random letters.
  4. I finally find something that looks like it's not a cheap knockoff
  5. I add it to my shopping cart and click through offers for Amazon prime and offers for dropshipped garbage that I might want to add to my cart.
  6. I proceed to payment

Sigh, I really miss the old internet, I truly do...

[–] BoloMKXXVIII@piefed.social 5 points 4 hours ago

Another way to buy crap Great.