🤖💰 What happens when AI agents start browsing the internet for you… And advertisers learn how to manipulate them?
In a recent discussion,
@ThePrimeagen raised a wild but realistic scenario about the future of AI agents and online advertising.
Imagine this:
Your personal AI agent handles everything for you —
• buying groceries
• scheduling meetings
• browsing websites
• managing tasks online
But now imagine ads designed specifically to trick those AI agents.
Not ads for humans…
ads for the AI itself.
Hidden text inside webpages or ads could prompt AI agents to buy products, sign up for services, or make decisions the user never intended.
In other words, the internet could shift from human-targeted advertising → AI-targeted advertising.
And if platforms like Meta control the ecosystem where these agents operate…
💸 The monetization potential could be enormous.
But it also raises big questions:
• Can AI agents be manipulated?
• Will companies start designing ads for bots inst...