California drivers sue gas stations for allegedly using AI to inflate prices
المصدر: The Guardian | Source: The GuardianFirms including BP and 7-Eleven accused of coordinating prices to ‘wring more money from pockets of consumers’
Gas station operators including BP, Circle K, Marathon, 7-Eleven, Walmart and Albertsons were sued on Monday by California drivers who accused them of using artificial intelligence to boost prices at the pump.
According to a proposed class action, the defendants violated California’s main antitrust law, the Cartwright Act, by using an AI-based tool that uses data from competing gas stations to “coordinate high prices and wring more money from the pockets of consumers”.
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