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Shoppers have been warned of discriminatory pricing, more convincing scammers and putting their faith in a bot to...

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The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has flagged significant concerns regarding the use of AI for discriminatory pricing and automated collusion between algorithms. These developments pose risks to market stability and consumer protection, highlighting the potential for AI to cause systemic economic harm without direct human intervention. The report emphasizes the need for updated regulatory frameworks to address how frontier AI models could enable more sophisticated scams and anti-competitive behaviors within the Australian digital economy.

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