2024-03-17
“AI work systems are built to keep drivers apart, incentivising them to compete. As work turns into a contest, holding onto your livelihood becomes the prize.” @madhumita29 on the delivery rider who took on the UberEats algorithm https://www.ft.com/...
Financial Times
How an Uber Eats worker created UberCheats, a web app that computed the actual distance a courier traveled, after suspecting algorithmic error and underpayment
A tech-savvy Uber Eats worker was sick of the algorithms that controlled his day. So he decided to fight back X: @mrbrownsir , @hoofnagle , @ftmag , @michaelezra , @madhumita29 , ...