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Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful (www.theverge.com)
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[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 48 points 1 week ago (7 children)

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??

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] LadyMeow@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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!

[–] bedwyr@piefed.ca 2 points 1 week ago

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.

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