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sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours ago

California drivers sue gas stations for allegedly using AI to inflate prices

www.theguardian.com

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California drivers sue gas stations for allegedly using AI to inflate prices

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sanitation@lemmy.today to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 21 hours ago
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Firms including BP and 7-Eleven accused of coordinating prices to ‘wring more money from pockets of consumers’
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    Is it illegal if they don’t collude?

    The but that makes using AI illegal is if they all use a common platform/service.

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      It’s legal if they don’t do any communication between the companies. Then nobody can prove that there is collusion. Using AI, that all use the same way to raise the prices and vibe the prices higher as response to the other AI raising prices is even better. Then it’s not even any human intent.

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        Involuntary Colludeslaughter!

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        Landlords used a common platform to price fix without communication between the companies and that was ruled illegal, it’s not quite the same but because of the way public LLMs don’t isolate inputs from users, you could argue that if any 2 users input their prices into the same platform they are engaging in collision as the information isn’t public.

        https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-reaches-proposed-settlement-greystar-largest-us-landlord-end-its

        Really we should just ban all algorithmic price setting.

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