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I’ve shopped with Claude a few times in the past month alone. It’s really quite good at finding brands I wouldn’t have otherwise.

It’s amazing how confident you are while being completely wrong. A pristine internet rant.

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I’m actually amazed and horrified at the same that you have outsourced spending money to robots.

Also aren’t you concerned your behaviour is marketers’ wet dream? They now dictate what you should consume.

There is a difference between blindly consuming something and consuming something you need to consume anyway.

At least i'm not buying pants every month.

Btw. you know who is buying my stuff? My wife :P

We all outsourced our spending to “robots” (via targeted ads) a decade and a half ago.

Nah. Ad blockers are your friend.

Ad blockers do absolutely nothing against fake reviews, fraudulent claims, sponsored articles and influencers manipulating you into buying stuff.

I'm not blindly spending money? I'm doing research for specific items. I then research the brands, the materials, the makers, etc. Yes, this is more than most will do, but I'm definitely not giving it my payment info or trusting its recommendations out of hand.

That said, for specific queries—e.g. "I need a linen sportcoat that is beige/natural. What are some brands? My price range is $XXX"—it is very good.

I was tired of getting flat tires on my rider mower, but I was a little afraid of replacing it with the wrong thing. Fed Claude the parts manual and ended up with some good flat-free recommendations.

Got something that fits and is working: something that, even if I'd done some more homework on my own, I might not have gone with because I would have been hung up on finding a perfect, 1:1 replacement.

And I just came back from Seoul where Gemini suggested local clothing labels I would have never found if I hadn't told Gemini what brands I liked already and to find similar ones. And it was bang-on style-wise (some of the shops were really hidden and out of the way).

You sent Anthropic a picture of yourself and had it generate images of you wearing various articles of clothing and then bought them based on the images that it showed you?

>> It’s amazing how confident you are while being completely wrong

Welcome to HN? :)

Could be an AI also.

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