• Aralakh@lemmy.ca
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    It will take time for people to fully trust AI agents to do their shopping, Forestell acknowledged. At first, Visa expects the majority of transactions to still loop in humans, with AI agents sending a notification for consumers to approve the actual purchase.

    “Now, imagine you do that a thousand times over the course of some period of time,” he said. “And then your agent says, ‘Do you want me to just not check?’”

    This is some capitalist hellscape shit when we’re being driven to hand over consumerism even wtf. Really scraping the bottom of the proverbial moral barrel fighting for this

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    Man, chatGPT is being blamed for school shootings and suicide already. Imagine if it bought the shit you needed to follow through on your behalf?

    This is seriously going to fuck shit up.

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      You’re thinking Office Space I think, hacking in Hackers was navigating skyscrapers and servers were called Gibsons lol

      • Hackers had the same thing. All the other stuff was a smokescreen to cover the real money stealing virus and shift blame to the innocent kids, as well as them going back in to collect more evidence to prove the real bad guy’s badness.

        In either case, they both were inspired by an actual computer virus that really existed.

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    AI can’t even answer basic questions correctly most of the time or handle basic searches for products, how on earth is it supposed to buy something?

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      I spend a lot of time looking out for undervalued products on eBay and sniping auctions. It is quite laborious. I imagine it would be most useful in this sort of shopping. Or buying tickets the second they become available, or tracking sites for cheapest air fare or hotels and completing the transaction on those sorts of things.

      I don’t advocate using it. I wouldn’t want to. But I imagine people will use it a lot for things like this.

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    This is awesome! I can’t wait to read the articles of how this goes wrong for dumbasses who use it. Should be fun!

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      totally going to happen. anyone who makes posts about how they got screwed should be met with laughter. nothing less. yes I’m saying blame the victim.

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    Things started getting bad when Visa started giving merchants your new card expiration dates. No longer can you rely on an expired card canceling a service or subscription.

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      Honestly it’s fucking evil. I had cards expire and thought, awesome, finally done with those subscriptions! Then I noticed I was still getting charged for them on my brand new card.

      We’ve let them take our money, manage it for us, and now they’re turning around and saying “don’t worry, you’ll still get everything you need … Just turn over your finances and decisions to us”.

      Fuck this

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        Just call in and say your card was stolen. They’ll send you a new card with a different number. And auto payments on the card will all stop.

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      I feel like it really started getting bad when Visa started canceling any payment processed via “illicit” (porn) means

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      Honestly, if that was white rice, I probably would have settled for much more than 10 bags.

      It sounds like the household requires quite a bit of rice, and white rice has a pretty decent shelf life even if not airtight or refrigerated

      I go through about a bag and a half myself a year,and that’s without it being a family meal

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    Ah. Lovely. I’ll just go set the "its been x days since ‘ai fanaticism’ made me throw up a little bit " back to zero.

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    Amazon utterly failed to drive up sales through the Alexa assistant, this is an assistant made by Amazon to shop in Amazon

    What are the chances this will work on any platform by any merchant driven by a slop machine that gets stuff wrong 60% of the time?

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      oh it will “work”. I’ve seen tests of it in action.

      it will work as in “an order will be made”

      Is it the order you intended? were the shipping details submitted correctly? Who knows?? Try your luck and spin the wheel! Add some randomness to your online shopping. spice things up a bit!

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    This better not be an auto opt in scenario. This has the potential to fuck a lot of people out of money. This feature is stupid and shouldn’t be forced on anyone.

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      We know this, but they’re gambling on current children to be raised in this world and not know any different.

      Teach them different.

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      Have you ever thought of clicking links or asking questions?

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        It’s a pilot program now, but corporations commonly change policy and widely implement things as auto opt-in. My statement stands.

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          My statement stands.

          Then you still haven’t read the article…

          It’s about giving a chatbot you use your credit card authorization…

          Not giving your credit card a chat or, however the fuck you think that would work.

          Best of luck in your future misunderstandings