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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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[-] [email protected] 221 points 1 week ago

Sooo... If you're broke, does it give you low prices vs someone who is rich?

Kidding, kidding. We all know they're going to be fucking the lower and middle income brackets hard as hell with this. As if we weren't already being milked dry, now they want to milk the very blood out of us.

My question is: What the fuck is the endgame? This shit isn't sustainable. Used to be that most companies were content with steady profits. The last 40+ years has shown us that simply generating a profit isn't enough, the profits must be constantly going even higher every quarter. But again, this isn't realistic or sustainable. So why the fuck has the entire world agreed to condone and enable this pathway that is ultimately doomed?

[-] [email protected] 120 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I was thinking the same thing, considering that I have less money to pay to fly my price should be lower, no? But the article ends on this note:

Early research on personalized pricing isn’t favorable for the consumer. Consumer Watchdog found that the best deals were offered to the wealthiest customers—with the worst deals given to the poorest people, who are least likely to have other options.

So basically the opposite of what it should be. I wouldnt mind individualized pricing if it meant Delta was robinhooding with their pricing model, but instead they are effectively using their pricing model to force out poorer consumers. Which makes sense from their perspective I suppose considering they can upsell more shit to people with more money.

As someone who lives in a top-wealth zipcode (as a working class person) I assume by next year this means I will no longer be able to afford to fly out of town…

Its starting to make sense why the GOP was working to ban regulation on AI use. This shit is blatantly unethical

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

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.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 6 days ago

You can strike crushed by their exploding submarine off your list. Already happened.

[-] [email protected] 62 points 1 week ago

People will not do anything. They might complain on Lemmy/Reddit/Facebook and then go watch another tiktok

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago

Most people don't even boycot companies for doing this shit.

[-] [email protected] 25 points 1 week ago

Uber started this shit years ago. If you're desperate, they screw you. You're well off, they screw you. You're in the middle of nowhere, they screw you. There's a holiday/event, they screw you. You're one of their drivers, they screw you daily.

I can't recall if they ever got sued over it, but they're still here.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

people would BURN THIS PLACE DOWN if companies start doing shit like that.

Based on what? People will not do shit.

[-] [email protected] 9 points 1 week ago

Based on them literally starving. This is a deranged idea that will infect every aspect of your life if you let it. And when it does, people will starve. There will be violence. That's my point.

They may abuse us and torture us, but they are psychopathic about it that they are not leaving any bread of circuses. When those end, the top dies. That's how society works throughout history.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

It's not just Delta. What we really need is tougher regulations to prevent this. Of course there is a snowballs chance in hell this will happen in this administration.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Starving because Delta airlines did a thing? Not sure about that one.

[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 week ago

Long term thinking? Nah. None for me thanks.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

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

[-] [email protected] 8 points 1 week ago

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?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

They’re already doing it for apartments and other rentals, and have been for years. Nobody did anything.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

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

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