Google has had a feature variant of this since at least 2014. Back when Google Now was a thing (before LLM’s took off) there was a significant outcry about privacy because Google was scraping your emails to tell you when your packages shipped and when they would be delivered, to remind you when your flight was and what time you needed to leave for the airport and if your gate changed etc.
The thing that bothers me about this is, at that point it could be a opt in thing (on the email providers side), and it shouldn’t be up to Amazon to use “customer protection” as a reason to enshittify their services so that they can continue to be anti-competitive.
Google has had a feature variant of this since at least 2014. Back when Google Now was a thing (before LLM’s took off) there was a significant outcry about privacy because Google was scraping your emails to tell you when your packages shipped and when they would be delivered, to remind you when your flight was and what time you needed to leave for the airport and if your gate changed etc.
The thing that bothers me about this is, at that point it could be a opt in thing (on the email providers side), and it shouldn’t be up to Amazon to use “customer protection” as a reason to enshittify their services so that they can continue to be anti-competitive.