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AI, in this case, refers to LLMs, GPT technology, and anything listed as "AI" meant to increase market valuations.
I have been using Amazon as a shopping search engine for a while now, don't actually buy it though. This is a new and extremely valuable search feature. Clearly I want a foot on a chair. Good job ai, good job
This is one of the dumbest use of AI I've yet to see.
Find products that look like these AI images
WHO THE FUCK IS THIS FOR?! HOWS ABOUT YOU GIVE ME PHOTOS OF ACTUAL GODDAMN PRODUCTS AND LET ME DECIDE WHICH FUCKING THING I WANT TO BUY?!?! Are there really people out there that find this helpful? Like, I guess I can understand prompting certain parameters you want in a product and then seeing if the LLM agent can find something that fits those. But this whole "here let the LLM do all your thinking for you" thing is utterly bewildering to me. "Here, we slopped up some chair images, any of those look like something you want to buy? They might not actually exist, but at least we have your attention which is the only thing we really care about at all."
Sir . . Sir please, you’ll need to adjust your worldview to accept our new AI overlords. If - sir, - if you can’t do that we’ll have to call the brain police.
Why would you ever want an imaginary image of a product you were going to buy? Just seems like a way to increase returns.
Only thing I can think of is language issues.
When you buy from suppliers in China, they want an image of what you want. It's easier than describing it with poorly translated words
I mean, if they just want me to doodle it for them, I can. Just lemme scan it over, lol.
Nothing smells more like a bubble when a feature like this makes it out to production. They probably worked on 10 other ideas, and this is what they thought was the best one.
You know one of those other 10 ideas was a button for 'let the AI decide what to buy for me', and they would have done it, but it went horribly, horribly wrong in testing. Like, you'd search for "cheese knives" and click the button, and then it would buy 50 gallons of Nacho Cheese and an electric knife sharpener.
upvoted for not using red circle, find the problem was part of the fun
Getting an actual photo of the product was already rare as fuck before AI generated bullshit and is one of many reasons I haven't used Amazon unless absolutely necessary for several years already. Like, it hasn't been really all that different in quality or matching the product description to what you actually are buying from Wish or Temu for a long time, other than being more expensive for the same garbage and shipping it faster.
Temu’s app is… something, though. It feels like a casino.
Same with AliExpress, to a lesser extent.
Amazon will copy the temu gamefication, because temu has already overtaken Amazon as biggest store in some European countries. Shittification will continue until revenue improves!
I can’t take that. Especially if they force you to the app like Temu.
…I guess I’ll get an agent and scraper to shop, then? What a ridiculous waste.
Or you could just not shop there anymore, and take your money to smaller, independent stores and shops.
Holy fuck this is the dumbest thing I've seen in a while.
What do you mean? You see the image of the thing you want, you buy it. A physical product is shipped to you that can't possibly match an LLM representation and you return it, from which either a trillion dollar company tells you to fuck off, or they refund you and ship it directly into the ocean trash island.
What part of this isn't "the dream"? Its sure a hell of a lot better than lights dim, spooky voice regulations
No . . . No! . . Not regulations!?! . . . NOooooo!
AAAAAAAAiiiiiiighhhhhhhhhhhhhh
You don’t have sawed-off giants feet on your patio furniture!!?!?
I had the same reaction to accidentally using the “new google”. I was using a newer laptop and didn’t set DDG as the default search.
I was searching for “devil may cry season 2 discussion site:Reddit.com” (yes I know…) to get a barometer if it’s worth watching.
Instead I get a Wikipedia result for “Devil”, 5 ads, and 0 Reddit links. Clearly that’s what I was looking for.
I switched to DDG on that laptop so fast.
Google wants you to have a conversation with AI instead of getting the results you are looking for.
Ask Gemini anything: "Hey Gemini, can you fuck off already?"
Sad part, they already had a legitimate usecase for AI. They could just let you describe a product in your own words and let AI find the best fits within their store. But no. They had to go for that.
IMO, the best case is policing the store.
It’s unorganized, and many listings are junky. They need crawlers (double checked by staff) tagging, categorizing, checking specifications, checking duplicate listings, checking for scams and such.
That’s what oldschool ML is already good at.
I LOVE FEET
Have you opened Uber Eats lately?
All the restaurant descriptions and dish descriptions are AI generated.
It’s insane. And probably fraud.
Since US companies don’t really know about Cabadian chains, you’ll have something about how Mary Brown or Swiss Chalet are local staples.
It just straight up lies about what’s in Thai food.
It’s trash.
(I mean, on top of the fact that you sold avoid it at all costs, both for being US owned, VC funded, and destroying local jobs and turning them into precarious “gigs” where you have to grovel at a supportless mega corporation that’ll deplatforn you for anything less than 5/5 stars for your livelihood)
It's all the food delivery services, not just UberEats. So frustrating. I don't care what that dish "typically" includes. Tell me about that restaurant's version.
This is especially problematic when you have dietary restrictions. The best part is when the site doesn't allow you to customize your meal. I don't get to know what's actually in it, and I can't preemptively ask for certain ingredients to be omitted? So I guess you don't actually want my money.
What if you click on the foot chair?
A severed foot is immediately dispatched and you are charged $99.95
That foot costs an arm and a leg.
🥁
Amazon would sever feet from their "workers" if they thought people would pay for it.
Ah, a severed foot, just what I needed.
So many storefronts have AI garbage images. When looking for a bed frame I wanted to get on that only had the corner supports and something in the middle of the bed, no middle of the side toe stubbing supports. Half the images on a variety of sites for the same frames had supports in some images and not others on each site.
Online shopping is a hellhole now, although it looks like Amazon is getting ahead of the pack in making things shitty.
You're just not prompting it correctly, bro.
Is the foot sold separately?
That foot does look quite rested.
Customers commonly purchased this item together with: SCP-610
AI've had enough!
Okay, I followed the instructions. My foot should be well rested by now, how do I reattach it?
On Pinterest I've seen lots of Temu ads, that have images of products that resemble the images i'm viewing, but don't make sense at all.
The look mostly creepy and very uncanny.
Clicking on any Temu ad gives you the homepage.
cut out AI and keep "show first result next to search prediction" and this would be actually a great feature