Firms including BP and 7-Eleven accused of coordinating prices to ‘wring more money from pockets of consumers’
  • 🇨🇦 tunetardis@piefed.caEnglish
    1 month

    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.

        • acosmichippo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1 month

          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.

          • njordomir@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1 month

            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.