Sees headline: is it ai?

Sees uri: looks like it.

Reads article: what can I say but yikes.

In May Google unveiled a shopping cart that works across various merchants that would eventually be integrated into Gmail as well,

No thanks, sounds like a privacy nightmare. Not to mention probably pushing for more consumerism, which no thanks to that too.

Amazon has also been plugging away at AI-powered shopping features of its own, like price tracking and automatic purchasing. Alexa for Shopping is built into the Amazon app, and shoppers can query the chatbot for product recommendations and comparisons

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??