The RealReal won’t let AI agents hog designer clothing

The RealReal, a secondhand luxury manner consignment retailer, said it's updating its bot defence system, efficaciously making it harder for AI agents to store connected its site.

The alteration comes days aft The Verge reported that an AI cause could beryllium utilized to instrumentality vantage of The RealReal's point reserve system. On the retailer's website, an point goes "on hold" and is unavailable for different customers to bargain for 20 minutes erstwhile it's placed successful a user's buying cart. Using Meta's Muse, The Verge was capable to instruct the AI cause to continuously re-add The RealReal listings successful a buying cart arsenic soon arsenic the 20-minute clasp had expired, efficaciously artifact …

Read the afloat communicative astatine The Verge.