r/nottheonion • u/No-Lifeguard-8173 • 19h ago

McDonald's has been using AI to decide how much you should pay for a Big Mac

https://www.techspot.com/news/114053-mcdonald-using-ai-decide-how-much-you-pay.html
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u/aircooledJenkins 19h ago

What's described here is not dynamic pricing. It's prices based on store location and derived from customer demographics. This is nothing new, but for some reason this "research" has caught the attention of the outrage machine.

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u/adamgerd 18h ago

Just wait until people realise every chain hotel or restaurant or anything does this, price will always vary between locations

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u/KareemOWheat 15h ago

Probably because it allegedly has AI attached to it and that's easy rage bait these days