This is interesting. I'm on the fence about using ChatGPT Atlas and Comet tools to purchase items for me just yet (mostly because of security lol) but honestly I really don't think we're that far away from this reality which is wild.
If you have a card from Citi or Capital One, they offer virtual card numbers you can generate for one time use to try it out and then disable so it can’t be used again. You may be able to set limits on the card as well e.g. capping the amount.
I believe virtual card functionality will become a key part of how agentic commerce works for security and control, to prevent things from going too sideways if the agent misbehaves.
I see this as an evolution of the Amazon subscriptions. A feature I both enjoy and loathe due to the dark patterns around it and how it exploited my mom while her health and faculties were failing. How might we help the lost vulnerable and marginalized in understanding this new world?
Dark patterns in e-commerce are all too common, and I'm sorry to hear about your experience with your mom.
Right now, even before these automations take hold, these practices are already a big issue for the people most at risk: those with limited digital literacy or declining faculties, e.g. subscriptions that are easy to start but deliberately hard to cancel.
It's possible that AI also has an answer for that too, in that it can be deployed to tackle those tasks, but that depends on having the presence of mind to ask and the willingness of companies to embed easy to understand controls even if it means less revenue for them.
This is interesting. I'm on the fence about using ChatGPT Atlas and Comet tools to purchase items for me just yet (mostly because of security lol) but honestly I really don't think we're that far away from this reality which is wild.
If you have a card from Citi or Capital One, they offer virtual card numbers you can generate for one time use to try it out and then disable so it can’t be used again. You may be able to set limits on the card as well e.g. capping the amount.
I believe virtual card functionality will become a key part of how agentic commerce works for security and control, to prevent things from going too sideways if the agent misbehaves.
I see this as an evolution of the Amazon subscriptions. A feature I both enjoy and loathe due to the dark patterns around it and how it exploited my mom while her health and faculties were failing. How might we help the lost vulnerable and marginalized in understanding this new world?
Dark patterns in e-commerce are all too common, and I'm sorry to hear about your experience with your mom.
Right now, even before these automations take hold, these practices are already a big issue for the people most at risk: those with limited digital literacy or declining faculties, e.g. subscriptions that are easy to start but deliberately hard to cancel.
It's possible that AI also has an answer for that too, in that it can be deployed to tackle those tasks, but that depends on having the presence of mind to ask and the willingness of companies to embed easy to understand controls even if it means less revenue for them.