LadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agoAmazon sues AI startup over browser’s automated shopping and buying featurewww.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square13fedilinkarrow-up189arrow-down12file-text
arrow-up187arrow-down1external-linkAmazon sues AI startup over browser’s automated shopping and buying featurewww.theguardian.comLadyButterfly she/her@piefed.blahaj.zone to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 day agomessage-square13fedilinkfile-text
Amazon accuses Perplexity of covertly accessing customer accounts and disguising AI activity as human browsing
minus-square🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up5·10 hours agoTranslation “We can’t track our customers with this AI and it makes us mad”
minus-squareFelixCress@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-28 hours agoI think it is more “we cannot push the products where we make the most money instead of what customers want”. Amazon search was almost famously bad with them pushing certain products to the top. That’s what they mean by “tailored experience”.
minus-squareMeron35@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·7 hours agoBig Tech truly did this to themselves. If Google hadn’t enshittified its search, LLMs wouldn’t have become nearly as popular, where so many people are using LLMs as search engine replacements.
Translation “We can’t track our customers with this AI and it makes us mad”
I think it is more “we cannot push the products where we make the most money instead of what customers want”.
Amazon search was almost famously bad with them pushing certain products to the top. That’s what they mean by “tailored experience”.
Big Tech truly did this to themselves. If Google hadn’t enshittified its search, LLMs wouldn’t have become nearly as popular, where so many people are using LLMs as search engine replacements.