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AI Surveillance Pricing Exploits Your Dying Battery, owning an expensive phone, increased Uber pricing - How AI Individualizes the Cost of Living
Send us Fan MailModern corporations are increasingly using artificial intelligence to implement surveillance pricing, a strategy that sets individual costs based on a consumer's unique data profile. While dynamic pricing originated in the 1970s airline industry to manage supply and demand, current technology allows for price personalization based on factors like zip codes, browsing history, and even phone battery levels. Retailers and service providers, including Amazon, Uber, and major grocery chains, utilize these complex algorithms to maximize revenue by estimating exactly how much a…
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