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Posted by speckx 4 days ago

Walmart: ChatGPT checkout converted 3x worse than website(searchengineland.com)
388 points | 255 commentspage 4
rambojohnson 2 hours ago|
enshitification at scale, propped up by noise/water-pollution datacenters the size of several football fields, but all we care about is the price of RAM. cheers!
zmmmmm 14 hours ago||
> Walmart will embed its own chatbot, Sparky, inside ChatGPT. Users will log into Walmart, sync carts across platforms, and complete purchases within Walmart’s system.

The enshittification is upon us.

netsharc 14 hours ago|
Hah, Clippy's cousin Sparky: every once in a while after ChatGPT answers a question it'll say "Looks like you still have stuff in your WalMart cart. Would you like me to complete that checkout for you? Also, WalMart-brand diapers is on offer this week, shall I add that to your cart?"
DANmode 7 hours ago||
“You are an unfit mother.”

https://youtu.be/lajnHjRp9Z0

brador 14 hours ago||
Original AI was sourced from university level text books, stack, wiki. Average iq around 140.

The latest AI is trained on the average citizens social media output. Iq 90.

That’s why AI seemed smart. The bar will not be raised again. We’re cooked.

_1 12 hours ago|
source?
casey2 15 hours ago||
Because most people can't read. Wait for agents generating personalized websites/self checkout apps.
fennecfoxy 14 hours ago||
Not really many details...

Perhaps clickthrough is worse because there are fewer dark patterns involved and people are mostly just browsing and occasionally buying only what they need.

They didn't really seem to specify the "why" of it with any research. And weird that OAI wasn't supporting them to see wha the issue was.

charcircuit 15 hours ago||
What if they made instant checkout actually instant? You ask ChatGPT to setup a website and it instantly purchases web hosting and sets up the website there. You can't beat a 100% conversion rate by actually checking out instantly. If you didn't like that host you can ask it to find it alternative and ChatGPT would automatically attempt a refund and then purchase from someone else.
LoganDark 15 hours ago||
I'd become afraid to ask that bot anything, not knowing what it would automatically try to purchase for me. Paying for the bot itself is already a lot: $20/mo to $200/mo or more.
lukan 14 hours ago|||
20$ for a personal assistant is not much, but no, I surely don't trust those assistants to access my money.
LoganDark 8 hours ago||
I pay $200/mo for one assistant, from one company. The number of other companies that want the same kind of money for other assistants is increasing. I wish I could pay $200/mo and get all the companies.
charcircuit 7 hours ago|||
That's why it would be important for the partners to support refunding.
TZubiri 15 hours ago||
What are we talking about here? ChatGPT as an interface to buy groceries? Or ChatGPT as an interface to build a website. I fail to see how these would be related other than using a specific technology
wrqvrwvq 13 hours ago||
> Because most people can't read. Wait for agents generating personalized websites/self checkout apps.

> You ask ChatGPT to setup a website and it instantly purchases web hosting and sets up the website

Multiple comments deflecting from the original shopping conversion failure to recommend ... building a whole new website (with hosting for some reason?). W/o bothering to look through commenter history, one has to assume there are a lot of chatbots on this site or else the people using this stuff have been lobotomized.

I'm sure it'll start happening too, and when that fails, the bots will, i don't know, invent a new macarena. We are definitely headed for an irredeemably stupid future.

ta9000 9 hours ago||
I’m shocked, shocked that an SEO website would say ChatGPT bad.
josefritzishere 11 hours ago||
Look, another thing AI is empirically bad at. Can we dispense with cramming AI into every product and service and just use it where it's useful? It's very wasteful and an utterly obnoxious experience for users.
Plutarco_ink 6 hours ago|
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