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One other ancillary benefit is no more “impulse” buying. Unless of course the AI gets incentivized to do it, it will then bubble that impulse buy up to the consumers UI.


I imagine the exact opposite is far more likely - there will be a button for "get your AI agent to consider us!" that will be even easier to just click, since you know it won't just lead to an immediate purchase - but they know very well it will lead to a purchase down the line.




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