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Re:Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries by bit1993 on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @05:04PM (#47869269)
> If all the airlines (or whatever business) are doing something like this

Then that would be the main issue and far worse then the algorithms, that's a monopoly or cartel and not a free market. Because in a competitive market prices will be competitive with very little arbitrage.

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Re:Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries by greenmilk on Wednesday April 22, 2026 @05:31PM (#47869550)
I've got news for you there. The Biden administration tried to take the first real antitrust action in decades and then suddenly a bunch of tech oligarchs switched from supporting Democrats to supporting a convicted felon
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Re:Surveillance Pricing: Exploiting Information Asymmetries by blargey on Thursday April 23, 2026 @01:34PM (#47878717)
When the algorithm is for estimating consumer surplus, the line between coordination and independent cost-optimization disappears.

Why would you try to one-down on price if an “objective statistical AI algorithm” tells you you’d be leaving money on the table without gaining market share to compensate? All it takes is for the market to be sufficiently concentrated at that point.

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