OpenAI has spent the last year trying to get people to do their shopping inside ChatGPT, so OpenAI could take a cut of each sale. OpenAI aspired to agentic commerce — a bot spends your money for yo…
  • JayGray91🐉🍕@piefed.socialEnglish
    14·
    12 hours ago

    I have no idea what they want us to do with these stupid chatbots for shopping. is it to make advertising their shit sound more conversational?

    I ain’t going to the big store like this without some modicum of idea what I already want. And get suckered into buying a bit more when I peruse the aisle :P

    • sleepundertheleaves@infosec.pubEnglish
      7·
      5 hours ago

      It’s for boomers who can’t navigate websites, menus, and search bars, and just want to text someone and tell them what to buy.

      And it’s for teenagers, who (the AI bros hope) will never learn how to navigate websites, menus, and search bars, and will spend their entire lives relying on AI tools to facilitate (and filter and censor and control) their access to the Internet.

      I think the tech bros saw how a lot of Gen A don’t learn to use Windows/Mac/Linux OSes because they do everything on apps, and thought “hold my beer”.