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Are you going to choose to buy your protein bar online from mysteryBargainBar[.]com for a $1 savings, or just pick it up as part of your local grocery trip? >

Are you going to choose to buy your protein bar online from mysteryBargainBar[.]com for a $1 savings, or just pick it up as part of your local grocery trip? > I still remember when people were scared to buy things on the internet People still /are/ scared to buy things from Amazon for things that go on or in their body.

vmg12 8mo ago
> mysteryBargainBar[.]com for a $1 savings The AI could also research which stores are reputable. > People still /are/ scared to buy things from Amazon for things that go on or in their body. Sure, there are also people scared of flying in airplanes, those must be a dud too going by your logic.
- NobleLie 8mo ago
  Grok, show me the place where the least people died eating product X.
- Ancalagon 8mo ago
  Yes from all those reputable AI reviews
  - Terr_ 8mo ago
    "Reputable" + Stochastic LLMs + Profit motive = A vast sea of poisonously false data and prompt injection attacks
- jonwinstanley 8mo ago
  Presumably the agents will band together on Moltbook and buld their own TrustPilot competitor? :-)
  - lossyalgo 8mo ago
    Too bad Moltbook was written by humans, for humans: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07432 https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07432
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riku_iki 8mo ago
> Are you going to choose to buy your protein bar online from mysteryBargainBar[.]com for a $1 savings, or just pick it up as part of your local grocery trip? 1. I buy in bulk. 2. I check amazon vs walmart usually.
- jacobr1 8mo ago
  Yep. ChatAI - show the top 50 online retailers by revenue in the US and note any that have credible new stories about quality control issues. Save all of them except StoreX and StoreY in your list you use for comparison shopping. Or maybe another one, scan all my credit card purchases for all time that you have history and record all the stores. Done. And plenty of third party sites (consumer reports, wirecutter, etc...) will do this kind of thing too. And you could perhaps transitively trust them - either view direct lists or just scraping the places they recommend. And the average person doesn't need to figure this out ... skills encoding this will propagate.

vmg12 8mo ago

> mysteryBargainBar[.]com for a $1 savings The AI could also research which stores are reputable. > People still /are/ scared to buy things from Amazon for things that go on or in their body. Sure, there are also people scared of flying in airplanes, those must be a dud too going by your logic.

NobleLie 8mo ago
Grok, show me the place where the least people died eating product X.
Ancalagon 8mo ago
Yes from all those reputable AI reviews
- Terr_ 8mo ago
  "Reputable" + Stochastic LLMs + Profit motive = A vast sea of poisonously false data and prompt injection attacks
jonwinstanley 8mo ago
Presumably the agents will band together on Moltbook and buld their own TrustPilot competitor? :-)
- lossyalgo 8mo ago
  Too bad Moltbook was written by humans, for humans: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07432 https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07432
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riku_iki 8mo ago

> Are you going to choose to buy your protein bar online from mysteryBargainBar[.]com for a $1 savings, or just pick it up as part of your local grocery trip? 1. I buy in bulk. 2. I check amazon vs walmart usually.

jacobr1 8mo ago
Yep. ChatAI - show the top 50 online retailers by revenue in the US and note any that have credible new stories about quality control issues. Save all of them except StoreX and StoreY in your list you use for comparison shopping. Or maybe another one, scan all my credit card purchases for all time that you have history and record all the stores. Done. And plenty of third party sites (consumer reports, wirecutter, etc...) will do this kind of thing too. And you could perhaps transitively trust them - either view direct lists or just scraping the places they recommend. And the average person doesn't need to figure this out ... skills encoding this will propagate.