Ignore the "AI" clickbait. What matters is that U&L are charging different customers very different prices for the same ride, and playing games with fake discounts. Which are both sleazy and, in places, illegal.
(Though if you aren't one of Today's 10K - ignoring laws and ethics have been SOP at U&L for how many years now?)
gdulli•39m ago
If modern AI is going to be used against us so horizontally we will absolutely not ignore it. If it widely accelerates something negative that existed before it, its effect is entirely relevant.
bell-cot•15m ago
The crap that U&L are pulling existed long before AI. And are very easy to do, at scale, without AI. Biggest downside might be that the PHB's and minions at U&L couldn't include "with AI" in their bragging.
If a bunch of banks were robbed by a guy wearing lime-green shoelaces - how much attention should either banks or law enforcement pay to shoelaces? Either that perp, or copy-cats, could wear some other color at whim.
kittikitti•49m ago
One of the ways I've found to game this system is to delete the app from my phone when I'm not using it. The real time systems have more trouble charging surge pricing if they don't all the data coming in from the background process. I compared this with someone else a few times.
It doesn't always work but I don't trust Uber or Lyft with my data at all.
bell-cot•1h ago
(Though if you aren't one of Today's 10K - ignoring laws and ethics have been SOP at U&L for how many years now?)
gdulli•39m ago
bell-cot•15m ago
If a bunch of banks were robbed by a guy wearing lime-green shoelaces - how much attention should either banks or law enforcement pay to shoelaces? Either that perp, or copy-cats, could wear some other color at whim.