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California May Ban Lyft And Uber From AI Price Gouging Users With Low Phone Batteries
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If they build a model which uses charge level as an input to predict the price they're willing to pay, that would be using AI.
It is weird how that makes it worse. Not just we knew there was a possibility you could be desperate so we raised the price, but more we know exactly how desperate you are...