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 3 weeks 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 2 weeks ago
the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Any time software makes a decision it is apparently considered AI now because that makes for a divisive headline
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
I’ll pay you 1 billion dollars to integrate that AI into my novel cloud connected toilet paper dispenser!
kn33@lemmy.world 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Vincent Van Gouging… huh 🤔
bobs_monkey@lemmy.zip 3 weeks ago
As if that shouldn’t have been a thing to begin with.
Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 3 weeks ago
Corporations aren there to maximize profits. Not defending them, that’s just what they are.
DashboTreeFrog@discuss.online 3 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks ago
Like those stupid broomsticks from fantasia