alt Hacker NewsWhy does Amazonbot even exist, can someone explain? I don't understand why an ecommerce play would be crawling other websites.
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tintor • yesterday at 9:57 PM
To ensure Amazon marketplace sellers aren't offering lower prices on other ecommerce websites. Also AI.
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embedding-shape • yesterday at 9:56 PM
Amazonbot is specifically the user agent they use for crawling for "provide more accurate information to customers" (whatever that means, could be anything it sounds like) and also when they scrape for data used in AI training, according to https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
reaperducer • yesterday at 9:56 PM
AI. Gotta slurp the world.
To train AI. Not even a hyperbole, that is the only concrete example they list in their explanation: https://developer.amazon.com/amazonbot
> Amazonbot is used to improve our products and services. This helps us provide more accurate information to customers and may be used to train Amazon AI models.