It seems they’re really focusing on “registration, login, cart, and payment”, which would mean the customer would have to do this effective 2FA (which most consumers have conveniently been conditioned into using…), at least during these stages. This paired with the ability to allow “trusted” AI agents (including shopping assistants “that drive a projected 25% increase in average order value”), really makes it appear they’re incentivizing use of these shopping assistants (in order to avoid the 2FA hassle). It’s batshit insane the big-tech oligopoly has enshittified the internet to such a degree, the average consumer is required to outsource their usage to a big-tech agent (or at least one “trusted” by these platforms), for them to get any meaningful use out of it. And the rogue actors? Well, they’ll probably resort back to exploiting the third-world for solving CAPTCHAs…
It seems they’re really focusing on “registration, login, cart, and payment”, which would mean the customer would have to do this effective 2FA (which most consumers have conveniently been conditioned into using…), at least during these stages. This paired with the ability to allow “trusted” AI agents (including shopping assistants “that drive a projected 25% increase in average order value”), really makes it appear they’re incentivizing use of these shopping assistants (in order to avoid the 2FA hassle). It’s batshit insane the big-tech oligopoly has enshittified the internet to such a degree, the average consumer is required to outsource their usage to a big-tech agent (or at least one “trusted” by these platforms), for them to get any meaningful use out of it. And the rogue actors? Well, they’ll probably resort back to exploiting the third-world for solving CAPTCHAs…