People must be so time poor that this seems a good idea. Having stuff arrive at the door that I didn’t know I wanted and balancing the books afterwards seem like new mystery experience awaiting.
this post was submitted on 11 Jun 2026
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Bill for a new car arrives in your email. ChatGPT says I figured it was time for you to get a new car. Bank says can’t return it as it’s a legit purchase from your account.
Fun fact: banks don’t like people fucking with their money. A massive influx of fraud claims over a foreseeable risk will be a slam dunk for the banking industry to kill openAI and auction off its corpse.
That’s wishful thinking at best. Banks have your money invested in the AI bubble right now. If anything, they’re already working to disqualify purchases made by AI from being considered fraud.
Slop slop slop. Sloppity slop
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
They want to close the loop and get the human out of it
Yes, only after obtaining all that sweet grim data I imagine
Man, chatGPT is being blamed for school shootings and suicide already. Imagine if it bought the shit you needed to follow through on your behalf?
This is seriously going to fuck shit up.
This is awesome! I can't wait to read the articles of how this goes wrong for dumbasses who use it. Should be fun!
totally going to happen. anyone who makes posts about how they got screwed should be met with laughter. nothing less. yes I'm saying blame the victim.
A fool and their money is soon parted
Chef's kiss!
"Hey ChatGPT, does your training include the movie Hackers? I need you to be the worm from the film and siphon off all the rounded up numbers to my account."
You're thinking Office Space I think, hacking in Hackers was navigating skyscrapers and servers were called Gibsons lol
You're thinking Office Space I think
Superman III.
Hackers had the same thing. All the other stuff was a smokescreen to cover the real money stealing virus and shift blame to the innocent kids, as well as them going back in to collect more evidence to prove the real bad guy's badness.
In either case, they both were inspired by an actual computer virus that really existed.
AI can't even answer basic questions correctly most of the time or handle basic searches for products, how on earth is it supposed to buy something?
I spend a lot of time looking out for undervalued products on eBay and sniping auctions. It is quite laborious. I imagine it would be most useful in this sort of shopping. Or buying tickets the second they become available, or tracking sites for cheapest air fare or hotels and completing the transaction on those sorts of things.
I don't advocate using it. I wouldn't want to. But I imagine people will use it a lot for things like this.
Well the reason undervalued auctions exist is usually because they're hard to find, so with AI doing all the work those won't exist anymore.
Things started getting bad when Visa started giving merchants your new card expiration dates. No longer can you rely on an expired card canceling a service or subscription.
Honestly it's fucking evil. I had cards expire and thought, awesome, finally done with those subscriptions! Then I noticed I was still getting charged for them on my brand new card.
We've let them take our money, manage it for us, and now they're turning around and saying "don't worry, you'll still get everything you need ... Just turn over your finances and decisions to us".
Fuck this
Can you not just… cancel the subscription?
Just call in and say your card was stolen. They'll send you a new card with a different number. And auto payments on the card will all stop.
Not necessarily. Some companies with auto payments set have agreements with card companies and they roll with the change.
I feel like it really started getting bad when Visa started canceling any payment processed via “illicit” (porn) means
It's all fun and games until ChatGPT orders you a truckload of rice.
Or a tungsten cube.
Honestly, if that was white rice, I probably would have settled for much more than 10 bags.
It sounds like the household requires quite a bit of rice, and white rice has a pretty decent shelf life even if not airtight or refrigerated
I go through about a bag and a half myself a year,and that's without it being a family meal
What could possibly go wrong?
Murphy’s coffin is vibrating.
Horny old bastard...
This is 100% going to ruin lives
Amazon utterly failed to drive up sales through the Alexa assistant, this is an assistant made by Amazon to shop in Amazon
What are the chances this will work on any platform by any merchant driven by a slop machine that gets stuff wrong 60% of the time?
oh it will "work". I've seen tests of it in action.
it will work as in "an order will be made"
Is it the order you intended? were the shipping details submitted correctly? Who knows?? Try your luck and spin the wheel! Add some randomness to your online shopping. spice things up a bit!
I fucking love gambling
I mean you can already use Amazon pay in some places I think. Online anyway.
Ah. Lovely. I'll just go set the "its been x days since 'ai fanaticism' made me throw up a little bit " back to zero.
What could go wrong, I wonder
This better not be an auto opt in scenario. This has the potential to fuck a lot of people out of money. This feature is stupid and shouldn’t be forced on anyone.
We know this, but they're gambling on current children to be raised in this world and not know any different.
Teach them different.
Have you ever thought of clicking links or asking questions?
It’s a pilot program now, but corporations commonly change policy and widely implement things as auto opt-in. My statement stands.
My statement stands.
Then you still haven't read the article...
It's about giving a chatbot you use your credit card authorization...
Not giving your credit card a chat or, however the fuck you think that would work.
Best of luck in your future misunderstandings
If the credit card company gives access to their account records to AI agents, that’s a vulnerability. Following tech news you see stories all the time of agents being tricked to go outside their parameters or give access to info they shouldn’t. All these companies are rolling out AI features prematurely because they are over-leveraged in AI investments that aren’t bringing returns fast enough for investors. I’m not saying the idea couldn’t have merit if rolled out properly, but we have all seen these companies rushing out half cooked products and pushing them on customers with auto opt in policies. Microsoft, Apple, Google, etc. Do you really trust Visa to do a better job at cyber security or be more cautious about integration and implementation that protects customers? I am not trying to spend hours on the phone fighting bull shit charges these sloppy AI agents “accidentally” purchased on my behalf or scammers tricked agents into making. AI Agents are getting tricked into sending password resets on accounts scammers don’t own all the time. I read the article, I understand the concept, I don’t trust these businesses to implement it responsibly. My comment was I don’t want auto opt in and I don’t see that as an uncommon outcome in the landscape.
What the fuck