Amazon’s search bar now generates AI product images while you type your query
Amazon has introduced a new feature in its app that generates AI product images based on user queries. These images serve as visual suggestions to help users find products that match their descriptions, although they are not actual items for sale. The feature is currently limited to clothing and home goods and is available on both Android and iOS platforms.
- ▪The Amazon app now generates AI images of products in real time as users type visual descriptions.
- ▪These AI-generated images are not real products but are intended to help users find similar items.
- ▪The feature is currently available for clothing and home goods on Android and iOS.
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Amazon has a new trick up its sleeve, and it is a weird one. When you type a visual description into the Amazon app, like “flannel shirt” or “blue and white gingham dress,” the search bar now generates AI images of products in real time as you type. These images are not real products you can actually buy. They are entirely made up, existing purely as visual suggestions to help you find products that look similar. Whether that sounds useful or baffling to you probably depends on how much patience you have for AI features that solve problems you did not know you had. Why Amazon thinks fake AI product images can help you shop better Amazon Amazon’s argument is that shoppers sometimes struggle to put what they want into words.
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