2024-03-17
The delivery rider who took on his faceless boss https://www.ft.com/... via @ft Interesting article about an algorithm that has commercial & other real-world impacts - particularly given UK courts' normal assumption that ‘the computer is right’, e.g. in the Post Office scandal
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 , ...