ChatGPT Gains New Shopping Features With Visual Search and More

[MacRumors]

OpenAI has announced several updates to ChatGPT, including a suite of shopping-focused tools that turn the chatbot into a full-featured product discovery and comparison engine.

The update brings visual search results, personalized recommendations, and improved product filtering to the existing ChatGPT interface. Users can browse and compare products from across the web by simply describing what they're looking for.

Queries like "best 4K monitor under $500" now return cleaner, scrollable product cards complete with images, star ratings, pricing, and summaries pulled from user reviews. Tapping on a product brings up more details, along with a direct link to the retailer's website for purchase.

OpenAI says the results are organic and free from advertising or affiliate influence, wherease traditional search engines and shopping aggregators typically prioritize sponsored listings. Product suggestions are tailored based on user preferences, such as budget, style, and category interests, although OpenAI notes that certain personalization features may be restricted in countries with stricter privacy rules, like the UK and EU.

The update also includes a new "Ask about this" button that lets users dig deeper into specific products directly from search results.

The new features are available for all ChatGPT users, including those on the free tier, with no account required to try them. OpenAI says the rollout is global and should be visible across platforms, including web and mobile apps.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1916947243044856255

In addition to the shopping search features, ChatGPT can now include multiple citations for a given response, allowing users to learn more or verify information across more sources. OpenAI says users can also now search faster with trending searches and autocomplete suggestions.

Lastly, WhatsApp users can now send a message to 1-800-ChatGPT (+1-800-242-8478) to get up-to-date answers and live sports scores.


Article Link: ChatGPT Gains New Shopping Features With Visual Search and More

 

[t0rqx]

In other words Visual Intelligence just got finalised and the camera button has an actual working feature.

 

[8KYUP]

Altman says "watch on Musk". No thanks to either.

 

[trip1ex]

results are free from advertising influence perhaps. But it says nothing about the sources themselves that they are aggregating.

Plus featuring 3 big winners up front (in their "best 4k monitor under $500 example) seems very susceptible to advertising influence.

nevermind ...still wrapping my head around how the sources they are aggregating survive when they seem ever farther removed from the user than they are with google.

 

[carniesandrubes]

Results are not "ads" but they will be affiliate links so...

 

[Gunner49]

So much emphasis on AI, but to the end user, what is it worth?

 

[bunce66]

I think Apple/Siri has reached a point now where it will be impossible to catch up. They're like 15 years behind.

 

[kalsta]

Best Apple wheels under $600… Darn, no results.

 

[CalMin]

Google has to be sweating bullets here. I’ve already switched to ChatGPT and Perplexity for the majority of my search inquiries.

 

[turbineseaplane]

Enjoy everyone ... the more you just accept whatever it spits out, the more you're just a mark for the folks hawking stuff on you.

(even more than we already are -- having to navigate promoted and sponsored "everything")

 

[Xavier]

Pretty soon we wont even need to think about what to buy, ChatGPT will tell us what we need. Bow to our benevolent AI overlord!

 

[Bustycat]

Best Apple wheels under $600… Darn, no results.

ChatGPT actually gave three third-party results for me, and the first is this:

OWC Rover Pro Wheels Kit for 2019 Apple Mac Pro

Quickly convert your 2019 Mac Pro to "wheels on/wheels off" in under two minutes while also saving money vs the Apple factory Mac Pro wheel kit.

eshop.macsales.com

 

[turbineseaplane]

Pretty soon we wont even need to think about what to buy, ChatGPT will tell us what we need. Bow to our benevolent AI overlord!

If we end up with no jobs or money, "buying anything" may seem quaint.

Not that OpenAI cares.
They'll steal all the content and take all the money, if allowed to.

 

[Zapski]

So…. It’s Google back when Google still worked.

Millions of dollars invested, huge energy costs, and it’s doing what we had before Google ruined itself. Mmmmmyep

 

[Skyscraperfan]

Can it also find the perfect woman, if I describe her?

 

[turbineseaplane]

So…. It’s Google back when Google still worked.

Millions of dollars invested, huge energy costs, and it’s doing what we had before Google ruined itself. Mmmmmyep

One correction ... BILLIONS

 

[CalMin]

I think Apple/Siri has reached a point now where it will be impossible to catch up. They're like 15 years behind.

Not 15 yet, but the gap is growing.

Apple’s commitment to doing this on device seems like folly at this point.

Their private cloud compute platform is well thought through. They should buy ChatGPT with their considerable war chest, re-engineer it to run in private cloud servers and call it a day.

 

[arkitect]

If we end up with no jobs or money, "buying anything" may seem quaint.

Not that OpenAI cares.
They'll steal all the content and take all the money, if allowed to.

But what happens when it has killed off the host?

Just amazing to think TS Eliot really did nail it…

"Not with a bang but a whimper…"

 

[citysnaps]

In other words Visual Intelligence just got finalised and the camera button has an actual working feature.

The camera button on my 16PM has had excellent working features from when I picked it up last year.

 

[turbineseaplane]

But what happens when it has killed off the host?

Just amazing to think TS Eliot really did nail it…

"Not with a bang but a whimper…"

On the shopping side I'm not sure, but on the "information" side (using that term very loosely) we are already seeing way too much acceptance of search results that are "mostly right, maybe with some sort of really wrong parts".

The quiet part nobody wants to say is how little so many people know and how inept so many are at general reasoning.
Folks are so easily duped now and with an ever shrinking actual knowledge base to fall back on to, are just absolute marks.

 

[Innovati0n]

The camera button on my 16PM has had excellent working features from when I picked it up last year.

Same here on my 16 Pro. I think you and I must have gotten special edition models or something?

 

[Innovati0n]

Results are not "ads" but they will be affiliate links so...

There's a big difference there. I'd explain it but I assume you know.

 

[Innovati0n]

In other words Visual Intelligence just got finalised and the camera button has an actual working feature.

You either don't own a phone with the camera control button or yours is broken because it works fine on my 16 Pro. If you do own a model with the button and it isn't working, I recommend taking it to an Apple Store for help as you're still within the 1 year warranty.

 

[ikramerica]

It will still just start spewing wrong answers the more you badger it. And with product information, it will start spewing outdated information as current the more you badger it.

 

[Frantisekj]

AI is good tool f

results are free from advertising influence perhaps. But it says nothing about the sources themselves that they are aggregating.

Plus featuring 3 big winners up front (in their "best 4k monitor under $500 example) seems very susceptible to advertising influence.

nevermind ...still wrapping my head around how the sources they are aggregating survive when they seem ever farther removed from the user than they are with google.

For someone who is well oriented in topic you ask about otherwise you have little chance to filter bias of any kind that can come in results. Ai can process a lot of data and help in decision making but source and quality of data matters.