Amazon Brings Down the Hammer on Meta’s Muse AI Agent
Just weeks after its launch and subsequent takeover of the app store charts, Meta’s new AI assistant Muse has already been locked out of Amazon. “We think it’s fairly straightforward that third-party applications that offer to make purchases on behalf of customers from other businesses should operate openly and respect service provider decisions about whether or not to participate,” an Amazon spokesperson told Gizmodo. The spokesperson compared the arrangement to food delivery apps working with restaurants or travel agencies booking flights with airlines.
- ▪Just weeks after its launch and subsequent takeover of the app store charts, Meta’s new AI assistant Muse has already been locked out of Amazon.
- ▪“We think it’s fairly straightforward that third-party applications that offer to make purchases on behalf of customers from other businesses should operate openly and respect service provider decisions about whether or not to participate,”
- ▪The spokesperson compared the arrangement to food delivery apps working with restaurants or travel agencies booking flights with airlines.
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- ▪ Amazon Blocks Meta's Muse AI Agent from Its Retail Site — Bloomberg.com
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Just weeks after its launch and subsequent takeover of the app store charts, Meta’s new AI assistant Muse has already been locked out of Amazon. GeekWire first reported that, as of Sunday night, users trying to make Amazon purchases through Muse saw pop-up messages reading, “Continued access by an unauthorized AI agent violates Amazon’s Conditions of Use, to which our customers have agreed.” Amazon confirmed to Gizmodo in an emailed statement that it has asked Meta to stop allowing Muse to shop on Amazon.com on users’ behalf.
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