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Amazon uses AI to invent products you can’t buy

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Jason Weisberger
Jun 03, 2026
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Amazon’s latest AI shopping “feature” generates fake product images while you type, because apparently searching through the world’s largest pile of actual products was too grounded in reality.

Available starting today, the Amazon app will generate images of products as you type words into the search bar. With the example…

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