As a test, I told its agent to put all of the routers in the New York Times’ Wirecutter product recommendation site into the shopping cart on my Amazon account. But it ran into a problem – the Times wouldn’t allow the ChatGPT agent to access the story. Could that be because the Times is suing OpenAI for ingesting its content without permission? I switched to Wired’s router recommendations instead, and the agent successfully put $1,100 worth of hardware into the cart. I might have been able to say “buy them!” and Atlas would pulled the trigger on the purchase, but for the sake of my bank account I demurred.
Similarly, I could not get the browser to log into my Houston Chronicle subscriber account. On the login page, whether I opted to use my password or a “magic link” sent to my email inbox, trying to sign in resulted in a page-not-found result.
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