alt Hacker NewsMore likely, they want to be the exclusive provider of LLMs that can purchase off of eBay, or at least charge for API access.
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rvnx • yesterday at 9:54 PM
This; "certified / authorized by eBay" and then agents have to pay access to the catalogue
They may have an inkling that the big LLM companies will want to pay for future/past data... I imagine either Google or OpenAI has something predictive and shopping-related in the books.