Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Big box chains have proudly embraced artificial intelligence — but don’t expect them to help when their AI assistants charge your card for hallucinated garbage. That trend, in which retail giants force their AI initiatives on consumers while distancing themselves from its failures, is growing. While that attitude certainly isn’t unique to big box stores, it’s increasingly becoming their default setting, revealing the ridiculous double standard baked into the AI boom. Target is the latest to jump on the bandwagon. According to Business Insider, the Minnesota-based retail corporation recently updated its terms and conditions to make it clear that customers — not the company — would be responsible for the failures and hallucinations of its upcoming AI shopping assistant. That virtual buddy, which runs on Google’s Gemini, is supposed to help online shoppers finish Target runs on their users’ behalf. Under the new terms, if a customer uses the Gemini agent to do their shopping for them, any …