Amazon Mechanical Turk is a website that allows companies to post jobs for online workers. These workers perform tasks by computer at home and receive a payment for completing each task. The payment ...

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Inside Amazon’s clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI Your email has been sent Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into ...

I have something to confess. For the last few months I've spent countless hours moonlighting on a wide array of odd jobs. Really odd jobs. I've worked in the porn industry. I've censored online ...

Completing surveys and doing data entry for strangers online isn’t just a sideline. It appears to be key for many people to pay the bills. The primary purpose of the survey was to assess Turkopticon, ...

I’ve worked in the porn industry. I’ve censored online content. I’ve helped schoolteachers bust plagiarists. I’ve touted real estate. I’ve burned my personal social network to score a few cents. My ...