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any way to stop an agent from buying from the wrong merchant?

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Was talking with a friend one day and he told me about an AI shopping agent that picked the right type of product but bought it from a merchant the he never would have chosen. That got me thinking about how these agent payments are supposed to work once they become more common in our daily lives. A…

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  1. 2026-08-21 22:37 · r/AI_Agents
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