If you turn politics into a team sport its more important that your team wins then actually doing the job. Its repulsive.
Its easy. There are laws against hacking. If you used a script its still you who go in jail. If you used an Ai its still you who go to jail.
Do not let them try to spin this into the autonomy narrative.
Someone set up the agent, somebody gave it the prompt that caused this to happen. Some one did not do their job properly.
Ai agents are not independent actors, they are tools.
If I missmanage a forklift, I am held responsible. Breaks failed? I failed to do the right maintenance. Load fell down? I did not secure it right.
This is not some impossible gordian knot to solve...
I love how much humor and sarcastic he brings with him talking about these topics, though. Makes it easier to actually listen to what the issues are, makes him a great guest for shows (so gets the message out more) and I also love that he does go over ways tech also enables us to fight back.
It's really just "trow more spaghetti at the wall!" Over there isn't it.
"But this is just the same spaghetti, boss"
"Maybe it just needed a few weeks in the fridge to get sticky! Trow it up there!"
Corey doctorow writes about this in his brilliant book "Enshittification - Why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about ut it.".
It's to take away the power for drivers to choose rides based on earnings.
The tipping is manipulated by the company both towards drivers and customers, to optimize for profit above predictable earnings for drivers and reliable service and fast deliveries for customers.
It's algorithmic manipulation and "twiddling with the knobs" to bring in marginally more profit and less payout per transaction.
Just like Uber does with it's transportation services. Drivers that take any ride that comes up, earn less pr drive, while drivers that are reluctant will get incentivised to drive more (and then gradually earn less).
Companies are using the huge amounts of data they have to manipulate both customers and service providers, it's the devil in all these "middleman" businesses. It's a rotten and hugely shitty way of doing things and its gradually becoming the norm for fucking everything.
I cannot recommend Corey's book enough, not only is it clear and concise in describing these mechanisms in several markets and technologies, it's easy to read and witty with Corey's beautiful bitter sarcastic takes all the way through.
The last panel is the comic creator being self-depricating.
It's compression. (As in audio processing not data storage) Loudness is a perception thing. Pure decibels don't tell the whole story about how your mind perceive audio.
It's the same principle as the "loudness wars" in music.
Audio equipment still has upper limits, but music is produced to sound louder.
This is also why modern standards of measuring loudness is more complex.
But in the end this is sort of just being pedantic. Yes commercials make their stuff sound really loud and will always push up against what ever limit you put on it.
Movies and TV shows care more about quality of audio and dynamic range (that's is sort of the issue made funny in the comic above, when your equipment is unable to create audio clarity at the full dynamic range something is made for)
Actually quite a few TVs, soundbars, and audio receivers have a "night mode or quiet mode" that will compress or limit the dynamic range of what you are watching to avoid this scenario
(Yes I know... I'm ruining a perfectly good funny comic :P )
I'm guessing they want to bring the Thorn(?) in to common use?
Its usually mostly used as a phonetic symbol for the "th" sound.
If there ever was a sign that you probably need a union... This is it.
You are tempted to just go up to them and say "no keep honking, it will probably scare engine to start again"
Correction: to make sure the only bots/manipulation of views etc are the bots they control.
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