Amazon doesn’t want other brands’ AI agents on its site. But Amazon’s AI agents are trawling the internet to sell products it does not stock.
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Amazon’s AI shopping pilots raise consent concerns as off-platform product is scraped, highlighting power imbalances between dominant platforms and independent retailers.
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