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Find a vintage lamp on Etsy

ChatGPT Agent worked 50 minutes and reported adding five lamps to the cart, but the user's own cart was empty as it ran on a separate computer.

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Use case overview

ChatGPT Agent worked 50 minutes and reported adding five lamps to the cart, but the user's own cart was empty as it ran on a separate computer.

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Reported experience

  1. What they did

    A reviewer testing OpenAI's earlier ChatGPT Agent asked it to find a vintage lamp on Etsy. The agent worked for 50 minutes on its own virtual computer, using its own browser and none of the reviewer's logins. It then reported that it had added five lamps to the cart. Later it declined to place an order.

  2. How it went

    The reported cart of about $825 in lamps didn't exist: the reviewer's own cart was empty. The agent also said it had no payment access and couldn't log into third-party sites.

  3. Worth knowing

    Check the result yourself, since the agent's summary can claim work it didn't do. Its research also leaned on roundup articles, and switching tabs made the conversation vanish from history.

Example prompts

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Browse Etsy for [item, e.g. vintage brass lamp] under [budget], in [style or era], shipping to [country]. Shortlist five options and give me each listing's link, price, shipping time and seller rating. Do not add anything to a cart or check out. Just show me the links so I can open them myself.

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