机器人抢夺Instacart外送员较为有利可图的订单

最近几周，Instacart的外送员们发现了一个问题：一款应用程序的机器人会从他们手上抢走最大，最有利可图的订单。原来，是一些外送员为了抢夺利润较为丰厚的订单，会付钱给这款带有机器人的软件帮他们抢。而这款软件以第三方应用程序的形式--与合法的Instacart应用程序一起运行，并会计算出最佳订单。这样一来，应用程序只会让外送员之间形成竞争关系，不会对订单客户有影响，更不会对从Instacart上产生的订单有什么影响。目前Instacart Inc.的一位发言人也对此事做出了回应：“虽然这些机器人只影响了50多万外送员中的一小部分，但是公司还是会采取措施来解决这个问题的。” 比如Instacart最近也推出了新程序，会提示购物者用自拍来验证身份等。。。Instacart通信总监Natalia Montalvo也说："我们非常重视Instacart平台的完整性，并配备了一个信任与安全团队致力于监测平台上未经授权的使用，并且会抵制那些违反了我们的服务条款的非法和欺诈性第三方应用程序。"

In recent weeks, another problem has emerged: bots that snatch the largest, most lucrative orders out of the hands of other shoppers. Here’s how it works. Instacart pays contract workers to shop for groceries and deliver them to customers. Normally, the shoppers open the Instacart shopping app and, as orders flash by, click on the ones they want to fulfill. But in order to gain an edge, some shoppers are paying software developers who have created bots -- in the form of third-party apps -- that run alongside the legitimate Instacart app and claim the best orders for clients.In this way, the app tilts competition between shoppers but is invisible to customers and doesn’t take business away from Instacart either. A spokeswoman for Instacart Inc. said the bots affect just a sliver of its more than 500,000 shoppers and that the company has already taken measures to address the issue. Instacart also recently introduced new procedures such as prompting shoppers to verify their identity with a selfie. “We take the integrity of the Instacart platform very seriously and have a trust and security team dedicated to monitoring the unauthorized use of the platform which includes all efforts to prevent illicit and fraudulent third-party apps from violating our terms of service,” said Natalia Montalvo, Instacart’s director of shopper engagement and communications.  source

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