If you do something that doesn’t involve making your service better and the price goes up 50% because of it, that ought to be considered fraud.
Doesn’t everybody already pay a different price?
CEO: oh fuck oh fuck claude, quick make a lot of money for my airline, nothing is off the table, GO!
Claude: well we’d want to investigate a two-pronged approach where we cut costs where possible and at the a same time, raise prices in this market.
CEO: that sounds wonderful, please draft a press release and post it to our social media account.
Bad headline. They aren’t cutting costs. They’re jacking up prices.
Why not both?
Delta will use AI to discriminate against people based some secretive conditions.
Not secretive.
nonono judging off color is bad. We can judge of things that imply color like zip code, credit score, education, shopping habits.
Mother fucker. I felt evil doing this in roller coaster tycoon, and they weren’t even real people. Wtf…
Okay, who let a Ferengi become the CEO of Delta?
The only reason I’m not upset with this, is that I will game the algorithm to make my price almost free, if these MFers want any of my $, that is.
You’re getting downvoted, but you’re right. This knife cuts both ways, and it far predates llms.
Any non trivial algorithm intended to rank is gameable.
This is the foundation of SEO. It’s how the Donald invaded reddit. It’s the fucking central pillar of modern propaganda dissemination.
They’re going to spend a ton of money to lock themselves into an ongoing arms race.
And if one is morality opposed to this type of pricing practice, I think one becomes morality obligated to do exactly what you described.
And honestly, I think you don’t even have to come out ahead for it to be worth it. If your LLM assessed price would be 1000, spending a full $200 on compute to game and $800 ticket is a wash. You SHOULD spend $300 to get an $800 ticket if that’s where the floor is. Because fuck em.
Or if we had a functional federal government we could just make this practice completely illegal, and then pass privacy laws while we’re at it.
Lol, can you imagine?
Based on what?
Whether or not you regularly clear your browser data.
bog standard capitalism and its rules.
The max each individual is able to pay at that moment in time.
It is like reverse communism. The equalizing force is coming from the supply side.
“From each according to their means to each according to their greed.”
-Marx Twain probably
Able and/or desperate enough
Airplane ticket pricing should be based on weight + quality of service.
I’m guessing they will do that by replacing the CEO with AI?
No they’re definitely keeping nepo babies in CEO spots
okay so I guess I’m not flying Delta
Delta is just the first to say it out loud.
At least they won’t collaborate with ICE to ratfuck you against your Constitutional rights.
Oh wait
