This type of frictionless experience has the potential to spark a new movement in how people shop online – one that moves away from search engines like Google and e-commerce platforms like Amazon toward conversational agents with curated recommendations, comparisons, and easy checkout experiences.
  • crystalmerchant@lemmy.worldEnglish
    18·
    1 day ago

    OpenAI said in a blog post that the product results it surfaces are “organic and unsponsored, ranked purely on relevance to the user,” and that it will charge merchants a “small fee” for completed purchases.

    …for now. Remember the free open promise of the 1990s/2000s internet? This will get enshittified the same way, but faster. Once OpenAI corners it, I confidently promise they will jack prices wayyy up and monopolize it just like any other corpo.

  • AlterEgoTest@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    341·
    2 days ago

    “This type of frictionless experience has the potential to spark a new movement in”

    Its like they have never used ai, these things are everything but frictionless.

    The whole thing reads like an excuse to train on shopping data, promising to trow a bone to individual sellers so they wont complain as much.

    • lmr0x61@lemmy.mlEnglish
      104·
      2 days ago

      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.

      • doctortofu@piefed.socialEnglish
        291·
        2 days ago

        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…

    • RandAlThor@lemmy.caOPEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      They have to find a way to make money right? lol It can’t be an open money pit.