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Chapter 987 - 378: The Dimensional Reduction Assault of AI Business Models_2

The Xi Lin Smart Platform itself does not assign orders, but it will locate the area where the rider is in real time, and update nearby delivery orders in real time, including information such as time and fees. Riders can choose orders based on their own situation.

If there are situations like delayed delivery, the Xi Lin Smart Platform will determine responsibility. Various ubiquitous offline sensors can determine based on road traffic conditions, weather conditions, and unexpected situations.

The Xi Lin Smart Platform itself does not earn any profit. Instead, each time a rider accepts an order, 2 yuan is deducted, of which 1.5 yuan is allocated to the rider's accident insurance system, and 0.5 yuan is allocated to the dispute compensation insurance system.

Meanwhile, for every transaction completed by merchants, 2 yuan is also deducted and directly allocated to the business integrity insurance system, used for consumer compensation in case of potential commercial disputes.

Consumers are deducted an additional 0.8 yuan per order for platform operating costs, used for the smart city platform's computing service expenses.

This money is only managed by the Xi Lin Smart Platform, and the platform itself does not earn any profit.

According to the rules of the Xi Lin Smart Platform, if a rider can obey traffic rules while delivering goods and has a high punctuality rate, their contribution rating will be high. When swiping orders in the same area, they will be able to swipe higher-priced orders earlier than riders with lower contribution ratings.

Similarly, if a merchant can maintain honest operations continuously, they can not only gain more promotional resources, but if there are no incidents of responsibility over a period of time, they can also get a 50% refund with corresponding interest.

For example, with every order, a merchant pays 2 yuan for business integrity insurance. If they complete 10,000 orders in a year, paying 20,000 yuan in integrity insurance, and there are no disputes requiring compensation judged by the system, they can be refunded over 10,000 yuan.

In addition, the city's smart platform will be directly linked with smart property in the future.

Once a rider accepts an order, it will automatically trigger the smart property system. If there are smart automated work robots on the property, the rider basically only needs to deliver the relevant goods to the designated robot point, where the robot will automatically contact the owner and deliver the goods.

If the property is not covered by smart automated work robots, biometric sampling of the rider can also be directly used to enter the property temporarily to ensure the delivery of goods.

Of course, the most important thing is that the Xi Lin Smart Platform has no profit motive. It essentially only provides public trust guarantees and responsibility determination. Moreover, responsibility determination is entirely handled by artificial intelligence, with explanations provided after responsibility is divided, and publicized directly on the platform.

Therefore, even though 2 yuan is deducted every time a rider accepts an order, if carefully calculated, it seems that riders earn more per order, and merchants and customers do not spend much extra money either.

If merchants do not need to pay additional fees and only need to maintain honest operations to gain higher exposure and not spend extra on advertising on the platform, profits seem to be even higher.

Of course, not everything is positive.

For example, those extremely cost-effective takeaway cuisines on takeaway platforms will surely vanish on the Xi Lin Smart Platform.

The ubiquitous Internet of Things devices make it impossible for non-compliant businesses that faked their way onto outside platforms without formal business premises and with unsanitary product conditions to operate online. Even relying on traditional online takeaway platforms, such as Li Tuan, it is impossible for them to survive.

After all, the Xi Lin Smart Platform is different from ordinary people and is directly linked to various functional departments. If irregularities are found, the platform will directly send the information to the responsible departments in a formal way and keep records.

For Xilin, which has just secured such a large amount of construction funds for smart transformation, such system-automated reporting information will definitely be taken seriously in the initial stage. It's impossible to ignore.

Not to mention that there is an Artificial Intelligence Charter Bureau watching over the Smart City's effectiveness.

When all this becomes standardized management, it will nearly eliminate the small tricks people try to play in unregulated areas.

The most important thing is that when people get used to the city smart platform, those businesses with non-standard operating locations, or goods that cannot be traced, or unsatisfactory hygiene environments can't get any online traffic.

In a smart city, the difficulty of relying only on offline traffic to make money will be infinitely magnified, let alone the fact that even setting up small stalls is under the surveillance of numerous smart devices.

It may sound pretty good, but for platforms like Li Tuan, it's obviously not good news.

Although the construction of the Xilin Smart City has just begun, and even though all of Huaxia is extremely focused on Xilin's smart city construction, completing the entire transformation would still take one or two years.

But these solicitation letters have already been enough to alert the platform's executives.

If this is truly enforced, it really leaves no room for intermediary platforms like Li Tai. They can't control the online traffic of merchants from above, nor manage tens of thousands of riders in a city from below, placing them in an awkward middle position.

The sentiment is bound to be one of resentment.

Initially, to cultivate the habit of users ordering through software and to compete with other platforms for market share, Li Tai continuously poured real money into subsidies. The loss of hundreds of billions was aimed at seizing the market.

Although not all these losses were subsidies to customers, some were operational costs, the money was genuinely spent.

Now, finally achieving sufficient market scale and successfully going public, at a time to give back to capital, they suddenly encounter such a situation threatening livelihoods, which certainly doesn't please stakeholders.

Especially the operations of the Xilin Smart City platform have already had a direct impact on Li Tuan's stock price.

Li Tuan, listed on Hong Kong Island, saw its share price plunge before closing yesterday, with continued declines today.

This scenario is just because the related products have not yet been implemented. If the Xi Lin Smart Platform comes online in the future and the entire system runs well, Li Tuan seems to have no choice but to completely withdraw from Xilin.

If city-wide smart life services can be achieved to such an extent and follow a purely public welfare service model without profit requirements, the platform is naturally at a disadvantage. If combined with the technical advantages of anthropomorphized strong artificial intelligence and the fairness effects produced for users and service providers, it is a clear dimensionality-reducing attack, a rogue strategy.

It is known that Dou Dou's anthropomorphization is widely recognized.

The first ever strong artificial intelligence blogger in human history, able to respond instantly to any comments in the Weibo comment section, in a very human-like manner.

Frequently using reason to persuade others, with over 300 million online followers and countless die-hard fans, playing the role of a middleman and paired with countless offline intelligent sensor devices bring inherent advantages in promoting the city platform.

Even considering a darker perspective, Xilin is itself a historical and cultural city. Once the smart city construction is completed, it will inevitably attract a large number of tourists. With Dou Dou's traffic, if used to advertise reliable businesses, the resulting crowd effect in this era would directly overshadow even the top platform lead-generation advertisements.

Of course, if it were only Xilin, it would not have attracted such high attention from Li Tuan's senior management. After all, Huaxia is vast. Even completely abandoning the Xilin market would not be a big deal for Li Tuan.

However, Xilin is merely the first pilot city for smart transformation. If it proves successful, it will undoubtedly be promoted gradually to other cities.

More worrying is that if the public gives too many positive reviews for this model, it might directly exert enormous pressure on the platform.

Especially as Li Tuan, currently the largest service platform in Huaxia, already receives a fair share of negative reviews, especially from merchants and riders. A business model more biased towards users may be affected by the emergence of the Xilin Smart City platform, leading to increased management difficulty and costs.

These are extremely serious issues for a listed company.

Not to mention that the era of dividends has passed, the market is essentially in stock competition and there are basically no new customers to acquire. With every new city undergoing intelligent upgrades in the future, a part of the market will decrease. If nothing is done and the market is watched as it gets compressed this way, there will be nothing left but layoffs followed by eventual closure.

However, saying that there's a very good solution... there really isn't any such thing at the moment.

Even granting concessions can't reach the level of the Xilin Smart City platform, which operates on a public welfare model without considering its own profitability.

One can imagine how oppressive the atmosphere in the conference room must be at this time, with everyone thinking, "How the hell do we play now?"

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