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California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries (www.jalopnik.com)
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[–] 42 points 1 year ago (5 children)

As if that shouldn't have been a thing to begin with.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

    Corporations are there to maximize profits. Not defending them, that's just what they are.

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  • [–] 11 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    And this is why profits above a certain threshold need to be taxed to oblivion.

    Massive profit cannot be the single goal.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 year ago

    Taxation is a bandaid solution. Strong taxation is also not realistic as long as the nation is dependant on the economic growth of their domnestic companies.

    You can't build a sustainable economy based on a system which has the competition of free agents at its base.

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    • [–] 14 points 1 year ago (5 children)

    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?

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  • [–] 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Any time software makes a decision it is apparently considered AI now because that makes for a divisive headline

    if (battery < 15) { cost *= 1.20; }

    LOOK I WROTE AN AI ALL BY MYSELF

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 year 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

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    • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    Vincent Van Gouging… huh 🤔

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