How is that AI related at all and not just an if statement and a couple statistical regressions to find an economically optimal battery percentage to price multiplier?
California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries
Submitted 22 hours ago by return2ozma@lemmy.world to aboringdystopia@lemmy.world
https://www.jalopnik.com/1933954/california-may-ban-lyft-uber-ai-price-gouge/
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unmagical@lemmy.ml 20 hours ago
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 12 hours ago
Any time software makes a decision it is apparently considered AI now because that makes for a divisive headline
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 9 hours ago
I’ll pay you 1 billion dollars to integrate that AI into my novel cloud connected toilet paper dispenser!
kn33@lemmy.world 12 hours ago
If they build a model which uses charge level as an input to predict the price they’re willing to pay, that would be using AI.
Test_Tickles@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
It is weird how that makes it worse. Not just we knew there was a possibility you could be desperate so we raised the price, but more <whispers>we know exactly how desperate you are…
khaleer@sopuli.xyz 16 hours ago
We had “enterprise” lessons of sort. One of the topics was “brand message to make the world a better place”. I was 15yo back then, but even as a stupid kid I saw it as enormous bullshit
sramder@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Vincent Van Gouging… huh 🤔
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 22 hours ago
As if that shouldn’t have been a thing to begin with.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 22 hours ago
Corporations aren there to maximize profits. Not defending them, that’s just what they are.
DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 22 hours ago
Remember when basically all CEOs were espousing how they’re company was working to make the world a better place? No one even pretends anymore
ByteJunk@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
And this is why profits above a certain threshold need to be taxed to oblivion.
Massive profit cannot be the single goal.
Kowowow@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Like those stupid broomsticks from fantasia