Musk: via user's IP and cookies, Amazon can't tell human buyers from AI agents
elonmusk · x · 2026-09-21
- Replying to a tweet about Amazon and agentic shopping, Elon Musk argued that if AI agents access via the user's IP address and cookies, Amazon won't be able to tell whether the buyer is a human or an AI acting on their behalf.
- The point highlights an identity-verification problem for agentic commerce: existing platform risk controls break down when agents borrow the user's local environment.
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