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It annoys me that big-tech marketing has made most people believe that "personalised advertising" means they get ads which are more "useful" to them. I regularly see people opt in to personalised advertising because of this.

Personalised advertising is about collecting every detail about your life and using it to extract as much money as possible from you. AI advancements might be making this even more effective but it's been this way for a long time.

This has been true for decades.

I recall my university classes in mid 2000s talking about examples of machine learning models for grocery store purchase patterns.

The real tragedy is that we don't already have regulations already on the books in response to the endless data-hoarding that's been inflicted on us since at least the first tracking cookie.

AI is just another tool to implement a trend that has been going on for quite a while, probably starting with massive data collection through the internet. I think it’s only a matter of time until we will be seeing individualized pricing everywhere, including retail like grocery stores or gas stations

Maybe I am getting paranoid. But to me a lot of innovation in the last years feels openly hostile and primarily designed to extract maximum money while providing only little actual benefit. AI will just accelerate this trend.

why doesnt someone make a coinmarketcap for grocery prices across all the stores and update it in real time?

ahh yes. it's not just this, it's that.