Instacart uses AI to charge customers different prices for the same items [video]

Consumer Reports post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205041

A law in New York came into effect recently that requires disclosure of algorithmically derived prices. Such prices must be labelled with 'THIS PRICE WAS SET BY AN ALGORITHM USING YOUR PERSONAL DATA.'

https://www.regulatoryoversight.com/2025/11/new-york-begins-...

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paranoid schizophrenia is an increasingly reasonable reaction to the modern world

Surveillance capitalism is going to swing around to full communism.

Airfare, hotel rooms, now even groceries will have their price adjusted based on ability to pay. Getting a raise will have no impact on one's life, as all prices will automatically increase to absorb the additional income.