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Meta’s AI agent has been blocked from using Amazon.com

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  • Sunday night, users of Meta’s AI assistant Muse started getting an error message when they tried to buy goods on Amazon.
  • Amazon has its own cohort of foundation models, after all, along with one of the most popular inference platforms on the internet.

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Sunday night, users of Meta’s AI assistant Muse started getting an error message when they tried to buy goods on Amazon.

In other words, Muse isn’t welcome as a shopper — and anyone trying to buy something on Amazon through the AI agent will have to find it somewhere else.

Amazon has its own cohort of foundation models, after all, along with one of the most popular inference platforms on the internet.

Muse has one of the lower hallucination rates, as AI models go, but it’s still far from zero.

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