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The if-then machine would not be able to rise the price of things based on the costumers habits
A purely mechanical counting/tabulating device could calculate that.
There is zero actual reason for AI.
Only an AI can detect how expensive-looking your clothes are and raise the price based on that.
In case of an office vending machine, it could even identify you by your ID, check with the HR AI to see how much you make and adjust prices accordingly
Even if we assume they want to do discriminatory pricing (they probably do), they can do that without using LLMs. Use facial recognition and other traditional models to predict the person's demographics and maybe even identify them. If you know who they are, do a lookup for all products they've expressed interest in elsewhere (this can be done with either something like a graph DB or via embeddings). Raise the price if they seem likely to purchase it based on the previous criteria. Never lower the price.
That's a complicated process, but none of that needs an LLM, and they'd be doing a lot of this already if they're going full big brother price discrimination.