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Delta has a long-term strategy to boost its profitability by moving away from set fares and toward individualized pricing using AI. The pilot program, which uses AI for 3% of fares, has so far been “amazingly favorable,” the airline said. Privacy advocates fear this will lead to price-gouging, with one consumer advocate comparing the tactic to “hacking our brains.”

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[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 20 points 3 months ago (13 children)

There is no fucking way that that is sustained simply due to the fact that people would BURN THIS PLACE DOWN if companies start doing shit like that. No one has money as it is. I'm not convinced we're not going to burn it down as it is.

These elites has truly lost the plot and are going so far down the comic book villain lane, they're going to start dying like comic book villains. Dunked in acid, frozen solid, crushed by their exploding submarine, eaten by their own rabid experiments... Who knows, but I'm excited to find out.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 3 months ago (3 children)

Look around, dum dum. You see any shit burning to the ground? You think manipulating airline pricing is gonna do it?

[–] HasturInYellow@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago (2 children)

This isn't about fucking flight prices. This is a testing ground. You think it's going to remain relegated to airlines? If this works out for delta, you'll see this in grocery stores, in all entertainment, any subscriptions, every single transaction will be reduced to: what is the most you Are physically able to pay currently?

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 months ago

Yeah. Yet no one is going to burn Delta to the ground over it.

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