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> Anyone know why Amazon wants AI agents to stop making purchases? Because it bypasses their efforts to promote preferred products in the short term and, more
by dragonwriter 1y ago
> Anyone know why Amazon wants AI agents to stop making purchases?
Because it bypasses their efforts to promote preferred products in the short term and, more importantly, in the long term someone else becoming the front door to purchasing also enables that actor to commodify Amazon the same way Amazon commodifies other sellers, and before long to cut out Amazon as a middleman entirely and become the marketplace where buyers purchase from a diverse array of functionally anonymous, interchangeable sellers.
- plumeria 1y agoIn short: because they don’t want to become Toys “R” Us.
- Onavo 1y agoTrue, but it's not really existential for them given that most of their profits are actually from AWS. The grocery and dropshipping business has thin margins.
- MBCook 1y agoPrivate equity was a huge part of why Toys “R” Us died. More on topic, my personal suspicion would be that AIs get a lot of stuff wrong, unsurprisingly, and so these orders end up with a higher percentages of returns or people claiming they didn’t buy them or other customer service issues.