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How do you know they are standing up for users? From where I'm sitting it looks like they just are trying to protect Alexa Shopping's revenue and/or monopoly.
by majorchord 11d ago
How do you know they are standing up for users? From where I'm sitting it looks like they just are trying to protect Alexa Shopping's revenue and/or monopoly.
- suprfsat 11d agoAmazon: famously not evil ad giant.
- kqgnkqgn 11d agoI assume it was sarcasm, Rufus is an Amazon AI product.
- a4isms 11d agoAnd there go my Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure memories. George Carlin's Rufus was a "good 'un."
- Brian_K_White 11d ago[dead]
- digdugdirk 11d agoHa. Amazon's in-app AI agent is called Rufus. It's incredibly annoying, and they love directing you to an 'Ask Rufus' page where you watch an AI agent not-quite-finish repeating your search terms back at you before you realize you're not actually on your search results page, and then spend some additional time trying to find the link to take you to said search results page. I assume somewhere there's a team hitting their AI query KPI's due to this, but I really wish they'd shut off a few server racks and save everyone the annoyance instead.
- geodel 11d agoThere was internal JIRA ticket to rename Rufus -> Doofus as to dramatically improve performance and sentiment among shoppers on Amazon site. We should see this improved version soon.