Companies Using Ai to Price Gouging Hurricane Milton

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Hey Strangers, #hurricanemilton #ai #pricegouging Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody has received more than 200 complaints about price gouging as many thousands of residents prepared to evacuate from Hurricane Milton. As of Monday, most of the complaints are about fuel and water, said Kylie Mason, Moody's spokesperson. The top three counties for complaints are Highlands, Hillsborough and Pinellas, she added. There were also scattered instances involving overnight accommodations, including one Airbnb listing of a "room in Tallahassee" for nearly $6,000 a night. "Our team already reached out to our (Airbnb) corporate contact and tracked down the owner," Mason said. "We are sharing a copy of the price gouging statute ... and making them aware of their legal responsibility." (An Airbnb spokesperson on Wednesday countered that "the price for that listing has been the same for over two years. It was not changed in response to recent natural disasters.") ======================================= My other podcast https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKpvBEElSl1dD72Y5gtepkw ************************************************** Something Strange https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjVc2TZqN4&t=4s ************************************************** article links: https://www.latimes.com/business/story/2024-08-16/digital-price-tags-in-grocery-stores-prompt-concerns-over-privacy-price-gouging https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/hurricane/2024/10/08/over-200-price-gouging-complaints-in-florida-ahead-of-hurricane-milton/75577858007/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2024/10/09/georgia-businesses-accused-of-price-gouging-hurricane/75596125007/ https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/senate-bill/3803/text ====================================== Today is for push-ups and Programming and I am all done doing push-ups Discord https://discord.gg/MYvNgYYFxq TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@strangestcoder Youtube https://www.youtube.com/@codingwithstrangers Twitch https://www.twitch.tv/CodingWithStrangers Twitter https://twitter.com/strangestcoder merch Support CodingWithStrangers IRL by purchasing some merch. All merch purchases include an alert: https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/merch Github Follow my works of chaos https://github.com/codingwithstrangers Tips https://streamlabs.com/codingwithstrangers/tip Patreon patreon.com/TheStrangers Timeline 00:00 intro 01:00 What Talking We Talking About 02:30 Article 09:40 My Thoughts 14:00 outro anything else? Take Care --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/coding-with-strangers/message