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The Hidden Story of Pinterest Says There Is No Future For AI Shopping: How pinterest is rewriting the ai playbook

In Machines we Trust

In Machines we Trust

Technology

4.36 Ratings

🗓️ 26 September 2025

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

In a surprising move, Pinterest has openly questioned the role of AI in the future of shopping. We dive into the cultural and business factors that might make this prediction come true. It’s a conversation that could change how you see the future of online shopping.


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0:00.0

The CEO of Pinterest has basically just said he doesn't believe AI agents are going to be doing any shopping for you in the very new future.

0:08.8

He says this is something that is very far away.

0:10.9

Now, this is interesting to a lot of people because basically Pinterest is a lot of people know it as a social media site with pretty pictures,

0:16.6

but it's actually set up with its dataset to be one of the biggest powerhouses in AI and shopping

0:23.2

if they leverage it correctly. Today on the podcast, I want to break down what their CEO said.

0:27.5

Where I believe the industry goes, which I think is actually going to be a little bit of a departure

0:31.1

from what this CEO is specifically talking about, how we can expect to see AI agents in the

0:36.4

shopping experience and who the big players are in this

0:40.1

space because I think some of them might surprise you and some of them are the usual suspect.

0:45.1

So we're getting into all of that on the podcast today. Before we do, I wanted to mention if you want to

0:48.6

try out all the AI models that I talk about on the show, I'd love for you to go check out my own

0:52.9

startup, which is called AIbox.a.I. I have over 40 different models. Tons of new ones are coming soon as well. And basically, it's a place where you can test out all of the latest AI models. And you can compare the results side by side. You can ask the latest model from Claude versus OpenAI versus DeepSeek versus Google Gemini. Ask the same question, see which one gives you the best result. You can compare them side by side. And you can also do this with images and audio. You could use audio from platforms like 11 labs or images on platforms like Ideogram and even Open AI's image generator. All of that's on the platform. I would love to have you try it out. It's $19 a month. So you get access

1:27.5

to what you typically be paying $19 per platform and you get one subscription, get access to everything.

1:33.4

So go check it out. A.I.Box.A.I. The link is in the description. Let's get into what the

1:37.3

Pinterest CEO has been talking about. So this actually was him talking basically to a bunch of

1:42.8

investors in their Q2 earnings call. And basically

1:47.8

everyone knows Pinterest. It's the, you know, the famous website that's like is a quote-to-quote

1:52.7

social media site, but it's really more like a bookmarking website for images. My wife uses

1:58.5

it for inspiration for a ton of projects that she does around the house.

2:04.1

But what a lot of people don't know is it's actually a pretty massive driver of traffic for

2:09.4

shopping and for products. Basically, you see something pretty on Pinterest. There's ways to take

2:13.6

the products and images. You go and see what you're actually looking for. So it's got a really

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