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by altmanaltman 2 days ago
> Essentially, surveillance pricing is a technologically evolved form of dynamic pricing that already exists. The application of AI as the driver behind dynamic pricing makes it capable of considering a massive amount of data in a rapid time period to empower much more sophisticated market analysis.

But how? There's no actual explanation of how this will work? What will evolve? What will they do that they already don't? If they wanted to kill cheap seats fully, they could have easily done with currently available tools so how will the AI demon being available means they will "race" to do something they could have always done?

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The article sounds to me as if they just claim the 'need' for AI raises their operational costs that much so that they need to find better methods to raise prices. But yeah, they can stream their data just onto linear algebra with similar results. Or the simplest model ever: More attention -> more virtual demand.