Instacart streicht KI-Preistests, die einige Produkte teurer machten / Einzelhändler können die KI-gestützte Eversight-Technologie von Instacart nicht mehr für die Durchführung von Preisexperimenten verwenden.
https://www.theverge.com/news/849061/instacart-ends-ai-pricing-tests-eversight
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Yay, now how about the others
Funny, just last week I watched a [video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osxr7xSxsGo) report from Consumer Reports and More Perfect Union digging into this predatory pricing stuff.
Ah, they even provided an update on this development in a pinned comment.
[Oops, we got caught. We’ll try again later.]
Weird. I occasionally use Instacart to get an idea of local stock and pricing on Walmart clearance items. Picked up a 2TB SSD for $46.
AI is meant to make work easier, not to pick people’s pockets. It’s a good thing they scrapped this
Time to rebrand it and release it under a different name
They had some WILD AI-generated recipes the other month linked under items. There was some one that was saying to just bake cheese or something that wouldnt make any sense with this obviously generated image with a little disclaimer that AI made the recipes and they may not actually work or be good lol. So glad we burned some carbon to provide that
This is only for a few weeks until the media forgets they did this, then it will be turned back on. Gotta maximize that shareholder value by screwing everyone over.
Fuck AI pricing tools
I’m not one of the people who thinks there’s no value in AI. Surely there must be useful applications
But stories like this that we see so many of are so reminiscent of the early blockchain hype, where every single company had to take some normal thing they were doing which already worked fine, put it on a blockchain, and make it worse
No more smart-rounding?
Meanwhile, Waymo continues to work on their self-driving software one line at a time
> The company also rejected characterizations of the technology as surveillance pricing or dynamic pricing, and said the tests were never based on personal, demographic or individual-level user data.
It’s funny that they think saying unfairly charging some people more was just a random AI hallucination is better than random AI discrimination
Shoppers literally get banned from the platform if they include the receipt in the delivery because the customers see how much more they’re paying and immediately call support lol
Wild that we’re moving towards dynamic grocery pricing. This timeline is cursed