Category: OpenAI

  • Uber will Lead the Inevitable AI Crash

    Uber will Lead the Inevitable AI Crash

    It’s not technologies that cause crashes, it’s expectations.

    Ai is expected to solve every problem imaginable in the best way possible magically. But Ai is not Plug & Play, it requires competent hard-working teams to use it successfully.

    Delivery workers and taxi drivers are the first to experience new technologies deeply and benefit or suffer from them first.

    When the iPhone + Appstore grew big, we were the first to start using apps as a platform to do our jobs.

    And we liked it! Thanks to algorithms and apps we were able to get paid more, because we were more productive than traditional delivery workers: and the job was flexible too! Companies like Deliveroo showed what great opportunities for great work were possible with apps and algorithms.

    However, from the start there was one platform specific company in particular that stood out as bigger and more dgaf platform in logistics worldwide: Uber.

    The Uber Ai Boom of the 20’s

    Uber in the AI boom is the perfect candidate that for showing that Ai is not plug & play as the stock market expects it to be. Ai augments workers immensely, but it can’t replace workers. Expecting it to replace worker decision-making leads to business disaster.

    Uber’s history of reckless business practice and disregard for its customers, workers and partners make it the perfect candidate to lead the stock market crash. It also has the stomach required to eat losses and discontent and lawsuits more than other platforms.

    Ai is not Plug & Play

    Stock markets don’t crash because of technologies; they crash because of false expectations.

    Ai is not Plug & Play.

    Succesful Ai implementations require competent Ai teams that understand the business domain.

    You can’t just fire everyone and feed the ai the business data and simply ask it to improve productivity. Unfortunately that’s what seams to have happened at Uber and UberEATS, resulting in lawsuits and gross violations of labor laws by Uber.

    UberEATS’ summer ai experiment in the Netherlands shows what a disaster Ai can be. The company is hellbent on proving the viability of its ai experiment.

    Its ai is denying workers bonuses, paying workers separately based on worker characteristics and its getting worse over time.

    AI Expectations

    The promise of ai is that it can independently improve work processes on its own: but it can’t.

    The big problem is that it can and will learn the wrong lessons if it isn’t corrected continuously and immediately by decision-makers.

    It doesn’t matter how advanced the reasoning models are. Agency and power-to-decide can’t be coded. When the ai has been run for a duration of time in which it learnt the wrong lessons, it wont be able to recover.

    Right now in 2025-2026 the Uber AI pilot project is burying itself into u healthy business practices every passing day: even denying riders pay, if they dont do what the ai expect them to do. Workers are bullied and fired off the platform without clear reasons. Complaints are recklessly left to the national justice system, because Uber’s own systems are unclear and purposefully designed to demotivate workers in getting help.

    Ai Over Everything

    Customers, restaurants and riders are scammed out of service and money by Uber, but the ai boom must go on. Uber is all in on AI and it wont let its workers or customers get in its way.

    When to Short Stocks

    Uber likely will be the company that will lead the stock market crash.

    The ai pilot project has resulted in a disastrous delivery experience for riders, customers and restaurants in amsterdam, rotterdam and other cities in Netherlands in 2025 so far.

    The ai is learning the wrong things and its getting worse. I expect that the summer of 2026 will be when Uber Eats will break. The markets will know and this will set off the market crash🪄

  • Worker Sabotage by OpenAi + UberEATS

    Worker Sabotage by OpenAi + UberEATS

    Several delivery workers started reporting (oktober 2025 am nwards in rotterdam and amsterdam) that they are stopped from getting normal orders when they near bonusses.

    So when a worker nears the conpletion of a bonus the openai algorithm offers orders in another city that will ensure the bonus is impossible to reach by the worker.

    Being sent to a far-off destination as a worker on your last trip for a bonus is a common complaint from uber delivery workers in 2025 in Netherlands.
    Ai optimization by sabotage.

    At the same time the ai demands that all orders have to be accepted to remain eligible for the bonus.

    Delivery workers respond to expectedly by sabotaging the ai right back at it.
    The openai-ubereats ai is trying to avoid paying workers bonus incentives.

    There is no realtime feedback inside the app either. Workers receive a performance report 7 days later.

    Delivery workers share their frustrations about the new ai system at ubereats in 2025.
    A delivery worker reporting that they get plenty of orders in the morning, but not so much towards the end of their shift in the evening; so they miss the bonus target.
    A delivery worker reports that the last order they accepted was at a restaurant were they had to wait long enough to miss the bonus payment. The ai already knew this information (the worker received 3 repeated orders to pick up this specific order). Ultimately the worker gave up and missed the bonus, while having worked a full working day to try and work hard to get it.

    How To Scam Employees with Advanced Reasoning Models

    Screen capture from UberEATS Driver app that refuses to present orders to a delivery worker that reaches the final stage of a bonus. Bonus incemtives are used to get riders to do more orders, but the ai is using advanced reasoning ai models to not pay the worker and sabotage work.

    Link to screencapture here.

    The AI Horror Show Continues

    The ai is using all available information to sabotage worker statistics so riders can be denied payment while working the hardest they can. We think we can make the bonuses but the ai misleads us by giving us insane orders that ensure we get paid too little.

    Its like having a very ill sadistic manager that does everything in his/her power to sabotage your work.

    Delivery worker anacyoung reaction: “I received my daily performance and they must be kidding. It says I received 20 orders and only accepted 7. After 8pm (my shift ended 8:30) I was receiving only orders from places that were 20-30min away from me. However, it as telling that the place was like 15min away from me and the total time was 12min. The total time was always under the time I needed to arrive to the place, which doesn’t make any sense. Should I talk now to a coordinator or should I wait for the groups and appeal?”
    anacyoung: “I ended up with 35% acceptance rate”

    What To Do as a Delivery Worker

    Support at ubereats are ai agents. They dont understand what we are trying to say, or dont want to understand or even worse: they think its a normal part of the job to be incentivized by bonuses and then be sabotaged by an ai.

    The best thing to do is to explain to customers what is going on and ask customers to reconsider where they order food.

    Also building a case against ai practices that are not transparant. Hopefully this post and others on goridergo and elsewhere will help with the fight against the use of toxic ai.

    More info

    UberEATS has a partnership with OpenAI.