A couple of new stories struck me --

Delta Airlines is using AI, fed from your personal data harvested by data brokers and credit bureaus, to figure out the maximum you're willing to pay, and adjust their prices per-customer.

Shiftkey, a gig app for nursing help, bases awarding hours by how many hours you don't work waiting for them to call. And, the pay scale is based on unregulated data and credit scores. The more of a risk you are, the lower they pay.

Then, add on junk fees and the value to the worker drops even further.



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Re: AI, tool for enshittification...
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Thu Jul 31 2025 04:25 pm

Delta Airlines is using AI, fed from your personal data harvested by data brokers and credit bureaus, to figure out the maximum you're willing to pay, and adjust their prices per-customer.

Shiftkey, a gig app for nursing help, bases awarding hours by how many hours you don't work waiting for them to call. And, the pay scale is based on unregulated data and credit scores. The more of a risk you are, the lower they pay.

Then, add on junk fees and the value to the worker drops even further.

Meh.. I don't like some of the stuff companies are doing these days.

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I am likely downgrading my Delta Gold Amex to Amex Green if things get worse by next June.


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Re: AI, tool for enshittification...
By: poindexter FORTRAN to All on Thu Jul 31 2025 04:25 pm

A couple of new stories struck me --

One I've seen recently was that McDonald's McHire program (built by paradox.ai) had an IDOR vuln uncovered. It's speculated the entire thing was vibe coded.
https://ian.sh/mcdonalds/

Delta Airlines is using AI, fed from your personal data harvested by data brokers and credit bureaus, to figure out the maximum you're willing to pay, and adjust their prices per-customer.

We are living inside a capitalist nightmare, as you already know. They will go as far as possible to make money from you. It was never about the consumer. No company cares about you, yet again you know that already... I hope...

Shiftkey, a gig app for nursing help, bases awarding hours by how many hours you don't work waiting for them to call. And, the pay scale is based on unregulated data and credit scores. The more of a risk you are, the lower they pay.

They have a profile on all of us. They're always looking for new ways to make a profit. This was inevitable.


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Re: AI, tool for enshittification...
By: Nightfox to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu Jul 31 2025 05:16 pm

Meh.. I don't like some of the stuff companies are doing these days.

Dynamic pricing is not new. That is the reason why you should browse markets through some privacy overlay such as Tor.

Airlines and travel agencies were known to do crude profiling from your cookies and such a while ago. If you had been seen at a luxury watch website or whatever they would charge you more for your vacation, that sort of thing.

I feel totally vindicated by this crap. When I used to point out the danges of mass trakcing everybody made fun of me, now they are burning in the hell they created.


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