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OpenAI takes on Google, Amazon with new agentic shopping system | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
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[–] 8 points 1 year ago (3 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.

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  • [–] 30 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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...

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