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Sees headline: is it ai?
Sees uri: looks like it.
Reads article: what can I say but yikes.
No thanks, sounds like a privacy nightmare. Not to mention probably pushing for more consumerism, which no thanks to that too.
Yes, let’s let the hallucinating plagiarism machine buy stuff and recommend stuff and track pricing data. Oh, did I mention the planet killing chat box is owned by Amazon, the place that makes money on selling you shit? what can possibly go wrong??
Let alone the predictive pricing. "Oh you usually run out of shampoo mid month? Well guess what, shampoo prices double on the 10th and just happen to drop back down on the 25th. "
Google has had a feature variant of this since at least 2014. Back when Google Now was a thing (before LLM's took off) there was a significant outcry about privacy because Google was scraping your emails to tell you when your packages shipped and when they would be delivered, to remind you when your flight was and what time you needed to leave for the airport and if your gate changed etc.
The thing that bothers me about this is, at that point it could be a opt in thing (on the email providers side), and it shouldn't be up to Amazon to use "customer protection" as a reason to enshittify their services so that they can continue to be anti-competitive.
"the user is signing in with an email address from a company whose terms they accepted - let's get in the way and tell the user only we get to do those things"
AI won't help for pricing anyway because the company actively tries to get you to buy the less quality more expensive products, as outlined in a John Oliver episode.
Oh no, doesn’t help you for pricing. The company! To figure out just how much they can charge for just how shitty a thing!
Yeah sorry I knew that, obviously it does help pricing, their pricing, dynamic pricing coming to you soon!
CCTV cameras will know who everyone is and digital tags can give a price based on their metrics, or online with different prices. It's already started. Consumer Reports outed Instacart for doing it online already, a firm that operates shopping carts on multiple websites as a vendor.
I think this is the article: https://www.consumerreports.org/money/questionable-business-practices/instacart-ai-pricing-experiment-inflating-grocery-bills-a1142182490/
The future fucking sucks.
*Gives A.I. agent access to credit card*
I need a tungsten cube