>Uber charges more if the app detects you have less than 15% batteryhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlmLdvCM-ZI
Instacart just ran an experiment setting prices with AI.> Instacart will stop using artificial intelligence to experiment with product pricing after a report showed that customers on the platform were paying different prices for the same items. I can't figure out how to make sense of that quote: wasn't the whole point to dynamically set prices for individuals to fuck them out of as much money as possible?https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2025-12-22/instacart-ends-ai-pricing-test-that-charged-shoppers-different-prices-for-same-items
>>107641022what's does luigi have to do with it
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>>107641789Likely,>it was working as intended and customers hated it
>>107641789>>107642200they got caught and are totally stopping to avoid losing market share
>>107641022if (battery < 15) final_price = final_price*1.3;BEHOLD, AI
if (battery < 15) final_price = final_price*1.3;
>>107641789its just adaptive pricing, a cancer that originally came from commercial aviation has now infested ecommerce
Newegg and Amazon does this shit as well. GPUs cost differently depending on what VPN you use.
>>107641022QRD or screenshot of an article that doesn't require me to watch a fagtube video?
>>107643607Adaptive pricing for online retailers.
