Comment by krackers
2 days 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?
> 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.
> 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.
> The AI could also research which stores are reputable.
AI still can't even give me correct information or recognize when it's making shit up when using the latest models[†]. How could I ever trust it to find me reputable stores?
[†] Claude found 9 instances in my conversations with it, between January 24 and now, where it gave me incorrect information that I had to correct. It's a bullshit generator.
Yes from all those reputable AI reviews
"Reputable" + Stochastic LLMs + Profit motive = A vast sea of poisonously false data and prompt injection attacks
Presumably the agents will band together on Moltbook and buld their own TrustPilot competitor? :-)
Too bad Moltbook was written by humans, for humans: https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.07432
Grok, show me the place where the least people died eating product X.
> 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.
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.