Ideally it would have to be a distributed system or take payments from users. It is to tempting for big AI platforms to avoid acting just like the shopping platforms.
The conversational commerce agent can use MCP-UI[0] to show the payment UI (Stripe Elements and Paypal Button) directly in the chat and that taps into the same payment API the shop's storefront uses.
theturtletalks|18 days ago
I'm kind of building this already[1].
0. https://mcpui.dev/
1. https://marketplace.openship.org
theendisney|18 days ago
Perhaps we will get to see a future where great offers beat large advertisement budgets. Im sure many want to switch to that formula.