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Wasn't this shit absolutely obvious? It's the entire tech business model - lure customers in with a deal that's too good to be true, use VC money to gain market share, then once you've secured enough slam the product with enshitification and price hikes to try and claw in some kind of ROI
Absolutely, but Uber rides didn't jump from $10 to $1000 overnight. This is absurd enough that they might have killed the grift.
Also Uber will almost always take you to your destination using the shortest path. This is not true of AI.
And Uber actually provides a real service.