2023-05-04
“Hollywood screenwriters don't want robots taking their jobs, either” The thousands of WGA scribes who went on strike this week are concerned in part about the rise of AI — and how the major studios might tap the technology going forward. https://www.nbcnews.com/...
Ars Technica
Striking Hollywood writers have two main AI worries: their work being used as training data and being tasked with just fixing AI-generated “sloppy first drafts”
now fix it’: On the picket lines with Hollywood writers as they bring signs, slogans, and sunscreen to their fight … New York Times : Outside Hollywood Studios, Writers Make Their ...
2020-03-28
Between California's AB5 law and this NY decision this may be the end of the gig economy. @lyft @uber While couriers decide when to log into the Postmates' app and accept delivery jobs, the company controls the assignment of deliveries ... #ados https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ ...
Washington Post
Uber, Grubhub drivers and others will receive unemployment checks as part of the CARES Act that, critics say, amounts to a bailout of gig economy companies
Some Uber drivers, Airbnb hosts and other gig-economy workers sidelined as a result of the coronavirus outbreak …
Between California's AB5 law and this NY decision this may be the end of the gig economy. @lyft @uber While couriers decide when to log into the Postmates' app and accept delivery jobs, the company controls the assignment of deliveries ... #ados https://news.bloomberglaw.com/ ...
Bloomberg Law
NY Court of Appeals rules that Postmates drivers are employees, because the company “could not operate” without them, a potential win for all NY gig workers
Bloomberg Law :
2019-10-13
They about to have people dropping off groceries in the car that takes you to the airport. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Uber buys grocery delivery startup Cornershop, which operates in Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Canada; Mexico blocked Walmart's acquisition of Cornershop in June
Kate Conger / New York Times :
2019-10-12
They about to have people dropping off groceries in the car that takes you to the airport. https://twitter.com/...
New York Times
Uber buys grocery delivery startup Cornershop, which operates in Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Canada; Mexico blocked Walmart's acquisition of Cornershop in June
Kate Conger / New York Times :