Mechanical Turk

  • Want to earn a penny a task? Kidding? Actually, No

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    Margie Pritchard

    Mechanical Turk offers workers the freedom to complete menial tasks for small sums of cash. The platform, run by Amazon, offeres anyone the opportunity to earn money by completing quick, menial tasks posted by researchers: labelling images, taking surveys, transcribing receipts. These tasks can pay as little as $0.01.  Today, a reported 500k workers on Mechanical…

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