i really need to write something about "agentic payments"

[toerror@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@kamellatate @davidgerard The ultimate aim of AI is to turn everything into a multifractal circular billing scheme with AIs passing money about at every level.

[gooba42@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard The hype people love LLMs because they give really good demos.

They are basically hyper-optimized for looking impressive at a glance and anything else they do is pretty much a coincidence.

[jer@chirp.enworld.org]

@davidgerard Payments industry doesn't care if it works completely or not, they care if it reduces friction for purchases. The more payments they process the more money they make

So if having an agent buy things means people buy more things then they're going to love it. And if the agent has the authority to just go off and buy shit for you there are definitely people who are going to turn it on and never notice that their accounts are being slowly drained by an agent buying shit in their name

[bjorndown@mastodon.social]

@toerror @kamellatate @davidgerard if you earn a percentage on every transaction that sounds like a profitable future

[coolcalmcollected@mastodon.social]

@davidgerard

madness

I won't install a banking app let alone allow a program with sub 50% accuracy to handle my money

[fivetonsflax@tilde.zone]

@davidgerard You'd think this would be the one area where the FA/FO cycle runs tightly enough to nip idiocy in the bud ...