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Chevron: "Ha! You won't catch us using AI, our prices have always been ridiculous!"
Like do you really need an AI to do this? It's been going on for years where I live. It's not hard for all the local gas stations to collude to raise prices. It's easier than ever when you have the likes of gasbuddy crowd-sourcing all the price-checking.
i like to point out that companies are using ai to be a boogeyman to distract you. take every article tou read and remove ai from the text or replace it with automation/algorithm.
even the jobs. 5 years ago it was "company lays off 10000 employees" response was "fuck management" -- today they are doing the same thing but add "because ai" and everyone now says "fuck ai".
That's illegal as well.
Sure, but now you can blame the AI. Sorry, not our fault.
how does the logic work so it's not their fault? if they are price fixing they are price fixing, the mechanism doesn't matter.
Yep, if you tell an AI to do something, you are at least partially to blame for whatever it does. They shouldn't be able to avoid responsibility that easily.
That's kind if what Germany told Google. "If you have AI write your search summaries, you are responsible for checking its work and liable for its mistakes.
Yeah you're probably on the money there. AI gives you some sort of plausible deniability?
It didn't work for the RealPage rent price-fixing lawsuit.
Tell that to OPEC.
Is it illegal if they don't collude?
The but that makes using AI illegal is if they all use a common platform/service.
It certainly is. They get caught once in a while. The first time it happened was when I added the term "oligopoly" to my vocabulary.
