Perplexity Adds AI-Powered Shopping Feature With PayPal Checkout

[MacRumors]

AI service Perplexity was this week updated with a new personalized shopping experience that's designed to help users rediscover the joy of shopping.

Perplexity offers conversational search that incorporates the user's history and wants when looking for item suggestions. The Perplexity team suggests that the AI is able to understand each shopper's unique needs better than a search algorithm that's optimized for advertiser dollars.

The search engine is able to remember past searches, learning each user's design preferences. Results are displayed in product cards rather than scrollable grids, with the cards featuring spec lists and reviews. Perplexity supports checking out with PayPal directly from the Perplexity interface, though this is currently limited to supported merchants like Fabletics, Adorama, and NewEgg.

OpenAI this week added an AI shopping research feature to ChatGPT, so both ChatGPT and Perplexity now offer similar functionality.

Perplexity's new shopping experience is available for free to all U.S. Perplexity users on the desktop and web, and it will be expanding to iOS in the coming weeks.

PayPal is currently offering a cash back reward. Customers who complete their first purchase using PayPal within Perplexity can receive 50 percent back, up to $50.

Article Link: Perplexity Adds AI-Powered Shopping Feature With PayPal Checkout

 

[Genelec8341]

Powerspend (tm)

 

[turbineseaplane]

This is impressive.

Multiple levels of services I don’t want to use!

 

[now i see it]

I want to buy something but I have no idea what I want. I'll take the advice of A.I. and purchase what it recommends...

geez

 

[Dirty Mac]

... and then it hallucinates and orders you the $5,000.00 premium model from RealDoll. Won't you be surprised for Xmas.

 

[Astuces iOS]

Copy chatgpt

 

[JaydenA]

Copy chatgpt

SmithersGPT isn't the first looking at this, although in normal fashion they do rush the tech out the door to be "first" before full ethics and safety reviews can happen.

It's been proposed for a long time that AI would be a perfect platform for advertising. The somtimes subtle use of positive persuasive language the tool excels at is ideal for the task.

For many of them, especially Google and Meta, subliminal advertising and manipulation is one of the endgames.

 

[DoubleU]

... and then it hallucinates and orders you the $5,000.00 premium model from RealDoll. Won't you be surprised for Xmas.

Hallucinates… yes. It was not I who purchased this item, it was the AI

 

[Ctrlos]

After the PayPal Honey scandal you’d have to be an idiot to trust it to an AI.

 

[segfaultdotorg]

I’m just going to hand it my Apple iCard and let it order whatever it thinks I need.

 

[Astuces iOS]

SmithersGPT isn't the first looking at this, although in normal fashion they do rush the tech out the door to be "first" before full ethics and safety reviews can happen.

It's been proposed for a long time that AI would be a perfect platform for advertising. The somtimes subtle use of positive persuasive language the tool excels at is ideal for the task.

For many of them, especially Google and Meta, subliminal advertising and manipulation is one of the endgames.

Since chatgpt introduce this 2 days ago, it's for sure a copy 😈

 

[coolfactor]

Google's Search activity must be dropping like a rock! It's amusing to see these AI shops all copying each other in quick succession.

 

[coolfactor]

Copy chatgpt

These features have been in development for weeks, with a plan to release during the Shopping Season. It's not a coincidence that they are all copying each other... the endgame is the same for all of them.

 

[coolfactor]

I want to buy something but I have no idea what I want. I'll take the advice of A.I. and purchase what it recommends...

geez

Do you use Google Search to get recommendations? Where's the eye rolling there?

 

[Lioness~]

This is nothing, wait until Siri's evolved version of this.
When she gets her hands on your cards and begin power spending.
Timmy will be soooo happy.

 

[CouldBeWorse]

“That’s kind of one of the other reasons we wanted to build a browser, is we want to get data even outside the app to better understand you,”

Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads | TechCrunch

Perplexity is building its own browser is to collect data on everything users do outside of its own app to sell ads.

techcrunch.com

No thanks.

 

[Take Flight]

All of this **** seem like solutions looking for a problem!!

 

[Take Flight]

Do you use Google Search to get recommendations? Where's the eye rolling there?

The difference with Google is you are getting more direct sources of information from the stores, publishers, etc.. These AI tools are doing nothing but adding more layers and noise between users and the actual sources of information from which they pull.

 

[svish]

Cash back on the first purchase is nice. Will try it out. Not surprising to see more AI powered shopping agents. Expecting them to improve in the future.

 

[Mitthrawnuruodo]

M....yeah... there's no way any LLM is getting my credit card/paypal details or similar to go shopping "on my behalf", now or in the foreseeable future.

 

[macjaffa]

... and then it hallucinates and orders you the $5,000.00 premium model from RealDoll. Won't you be surprised for Xmas.

Yeah ’halluncinates’…

 

[macjaffa]

The difference with Google is you are getting more direct sources of information from the stores, publishers, etc.. These AI tools are doing nothing but adding more layers and noise between users and the actual sources of information from which they pull.

Look at all these atrocious ai comparisons websites. They are chock full of terrible inaccurate data. Theres ai websites for comparing any good you can think of. Now we have ai bots reading these ai comparators. People have lost their minds