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Visa plugs its payment network into ChatGPT, letting AI agents shop and pay for users (apnews.com)

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[–] Aralakh@lemmy.ca 32 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

It will take time for people to fully trust AI agents to do their shopping, Forestell acknowledged. At first, Visa expects the majority of transactions to still loop in humans, with AI agents sending a notification for consumers to approve the actual purchase.

“Now, imagine you do that a thousand times over the course of some period of time,” he said. “And then your agent says, ‘Do you want me to just not check?’”

This is some capitalist hellscape shit when we're being driven to hand over consumerism even wtf. Really scraping the bottom of the proverbial moral barrel fighting for this

[–] terranoid@lemmy.cafe 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

They want to close the loop and get the human out of it

[–] Aralakh@lemmy.ca 2 points 5 hours ago

Yes, only after obtaining all that sweet grim data I imagine