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Re:Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging... by data-ottawa on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @09:24AM (#48570211)
It’s so hard to find usable products when everything is “XYZ for the Agentic era”

Okay… what does that mean?

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Re:Sixty percent of US consumers say 'AI' in brand messaging... by throwaway0123_5 on Wednesday June 17, 2026 @12:09PM (#48572487)
The funniest one I've noticed lately is a bunch of Capital One ads saying "We built a multi-agentic system for finding a car to buy!"

I'm not saying I 100% wouldn't use AI to help me in product searches, but isn't one of the main selling points of AI that it is general-purpose? Why can't I just boot up ChatGPT and ask it what cars have XYZ things I need? Certainly being informed that Capital One's system is "multi-agentic" doesn't tell me much about what is being offered.

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