Airlines Are Using AI to Set Personalized, Jacked-Up Prices
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Airlines are using AI to set personalized prices for flights, potentially leading to price jacking, and raising concerns about the impact on markets and consumers.
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Delta moves to eliminate set prices, use AI to set your personal ticket price (77 points, 50 days ago, 92 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44596355
Delta Gets Blowback for Using AI to Set Airfares (14 points, 1 month ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44777900