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Instacart quietly deletes its unsettling AI-generated food pics

Wed, 01/31/2024 - 16:03

Tech Insider

An AI-generated picture for — A puckered seam in meat is seen in what looks to be an AI-generated picture for Instacart's recipe for "Boiled Dinner Recipe with Corned Beef Brisket."
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Retail, Tech, instacart, generative-ai, Food, fast-investigations

Instacart is using AI art. It's incredibly unappetizing.

Sun, 01/28/2024 - 14:52

Tech Insider

Side by side of two gross food pics probably made by a machine — Photos of food on Instacart that appear to be generated by AI.
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Retail, Tech, instacart, AI, fast-investigations

Instacart wants to turn grocery shopping into 'Pokémon GO' to get you to buy more using smart carts

Sat, 01/27/2024 - 05:37

Tech Insider : Technology

The screen of an Instacart Caper cart shows cleaning products that a customer can purchase, as well as two items already in the customer's cart. A smartphone sits in a holder to the left of the screen. — Instacart

Retail, instacart, gig-work, Technology, Shopping, Grocery, Stores

Why is your grocery delivery taking so long? Your driver has 2 other deliveries.

Mon, 01/22/2024 - 05:06

Tech Insider

A shopper wearing a baseball cap loads several cases of bottled water onto an orange flat-bed cart at a Costco store. — Shoppers for Instacart, Walmart Spark, and other gig delivery services say batching orders weighs down their earnings.
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Retail, Retail, gig-work, instacart, walmart, spark, independent-contractors

Most delivery gig work workers won't be impacted by the new fed rule — yet

Tue, 01/09/2024 - 12:56

Tech Insider

DoorDash driver on motor bike — Gig delivery companies, including Instacart and DoorDash, say they aren't planning any changes in response to a new rule from the Department of Labor.
AP Photo/David Zalubowski

Retail, Tech, instacart, Uber, DoorDash, grubhub, Delivery

Smart shopping carts with customized ads are the future of grocery shopping, according to Instacart

Mon, 01/08/2024 - 15:27

Tech Insider

A customer pushes a Caper smart shopping cart filled with groceries. A screen, displaying an ad for Annie's mac and cheese, is seen just above the handle, and there's a payment terminal on the left side of the cart. — Instacart is launching ads on its Caper smart shopping carts.
Instacart

Retail, Tech, Food, instacart, Grocery, Ads, Supermarket

The internet's biggest businesses have a looming growth problem

Thu, 01/04/2024 - 12:09

Tech Insider

Giant Tortoise — A Galapagos giant tortoise is pictured before its annual weighing at Riga Zoo.
Reuters/Ints Kalnins

Tech, eCommerce, digital-advertising, ridesharing, delivery-apps, food-delivery-services, grocery-delivery

The golden age of working for Instacart, DoorDash, and other delivery apps is over, workers say

Sun, 12/31/2023 - 05:07

Tech Insider

A woman wearing sunglasses and carrying a red DoorDash-branded insulated bag walks away from an SUV with its back hatch open in a neighborhood in Palo Alto, California at the start of the COVID pandemic. A hybrid car parked in a driveway is visible in the background. — Delivery gig work isn't as lucrative as it was in 2020, gig workers told Business Insider.
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OpenAI Pissed Off Developers by Phasing Out Plugins for GPTs

Tue, 12/26/2023 - 11:20

Gizmodo

Sam Altman needs developers to build useful tools with ChatGPT, but his company is pissing them off right now. Just before Christmas weekend, OpenAI emailed plugin developers, people building practical tools with ChatGPT, asking them to turn their work into GPTs.