Amazon's Mechanical Turk service is all about using humans to perform computer-like tasks, such as identifying objects and transcribing videos. However, those workers are tired of being treated like ...

Recently I had reason to get some audio transcribed using Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk service. The results have been impressive, and in this post I describe my experience and consider ways besides ...

An Amazon diagram about the Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform. Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments accounts ...

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk allows users to sign up for quick, low paying, online-based jobs like writing with photo captions, allowing other large Web companies including Twitter to crowdsouce the labor ...

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk human computing system is a handy way to get repetitive tasks done cheaply, quickly, and in ways that code can’t compete with. But is the Turk being used to perpetrate massive ...

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Inside the weird, wild, low-wage world of Mechanical Turk. The computer showed a photo of what looked like a school board meeting. My job was to rate it on a scale of 1 to 5 for 23 different qualities ...