TechTakes @awful.systems David Gerard @awful.systems 2w ago

Meet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it’s A Guy Instead

pivot-to-ai.com Meet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it’s A Guy Instead

In 2018, Albert Saniger launched Nate. You could buy from any shopping site — AI would figure out the site for you! Saniger raised $50 million from investors. Nate was just a front end to a call ce…

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Fuck AI @lemmy.world prototype_g2 @lemmy.ml 1w ago

Meet Nate, the AGI shopping app! Yeah, it’s A Guy Instead

pivot-to-ai.com /2025/04/11/meet-nate-the-agi-shopping-app-yeah-its-a-guy-instead/

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Oh hey I remember these guys from Trashfuture
If Ai stands for "Absent indian" what does agi stand for?

edit: my brain didn't process the title properly.
- Let’s drop the “indian” part of this and come up with something else, please.
  
  I personally didn't think it was bad because india is one of the countries commonly exploited for this kind of thing, but I can see why you would want to avoid using it.
  
  +1! and there's so many better options anyway!
  
  right off the top of my head (in addition to inside/instead): incognito, insecurely
  
  Just use "intern".
- "A Guy Instead", it's in the title?
  
  Alternatively, "A Guy (from) India".
  
  fuck im blind.

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