Hey guess which airline I wonβt be flying. Probably all of them when they start copying this approach.
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Thats bollocks. ππ i guess ill swim to Croatia for my next vacation πβ¨οΈπ€£π
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I stopped flying when they started coercing all the idiots into complying with biometric facial scans.
It's unbelievable how many retards there are that go along with that. Pretty much everyone is retarded.
Thatβs some evil shit right there.
βYouβre desperate. Pay more!β
hmm perhaps use a privacy preserving email service? also buy your tickets using a 'private' browser that doesn't leak cookie data
It seems that the dead internet theory will have a spillover.
Airlines have always done this, adding AI just means they will no longer understand why they charged someone more than double their neighbour π
I need to learn how to convince their AI that Iβm a cheapskate. π
After my extensive testing of ChatGPT, trying to convince it to edit my grandfathers book, retaining the olde English from the turn of the last century, that won't be hard π
AI to price algo: this guy will never pay more than 10 bucks and we will never sell all seats on this flight, give him 10 bucks ticket.
This is one of the things about AI that concerns me the most. Itβs a privacy nightmare
knives are a security nightmare
Wonderful.
Get fucked. Thats awful
People are slaves to their data and don't even know it.
Dynamic pricing based on user behavior is already happening and has for many years.
Prices on hotels, car rentals, airline tickets, etc. vary based on browser, location, how many times you've looked up prices and tons of other variables.
It's common knowledge in the industry that apple users (in general) for example are villing to pay more than other groups. Uber is also doing this to maximize earnings.
Tried this ~10 years ago for car rental overseas, the cheapest price was VPN into the destination country and an WinXP/IE user agent. Most expensive was VPN to a high cost country and a Mac/Safari user agent. IIRC it was a 2-3x increase in price.
I don't move outside a 1000km circle, ever. No passport. Anything outside of northeast United States is a foreign , hostile land.
Who'da thunk airlines would go fully satanic once credit card points alchemy lost steam as their profit center?
That is a diabolical policy. Charge you more, when they know you need a ticket for an emergencyβ¦
This should herald the return of the travel agent! Those intermediaries were made expendable by the internet and the ability to book your own flights, but now a travel agent may be able to negoitate a rate for its clients and then book same for that rate plus a commission. Holy back to the future, Mcfly.
with fingerprinting, will soon need a separate sterile PC just to buy stuff
this is disgusting but its what corporations are obliged to do to maximise shareholder value
corporations are a disease
Here is the irony: I use an actual human travel agent for all my trips. The deals he get are WAY better than anything available online anyways. Always first/business class only. Absolutely worth it!
AI and surveillance capitalism are designed to keep every person working and without savings until they die, regardless of how frugal they are and how much money they can make.