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Mechanical Turk

concept · 3 episodes · JSON

Also known as: MTurk

• s18e06 2024-04-04 2,193 words · 11 min read Low-Hanging Fruit, Information Processing, and People Problems … Amazon has form here, because the very systems that enable this kind of piece work are inspired by one of the leaders in this space, Amazon’s Mechanical …
• ep 200 2015-03-03 1,366 words · 7 min read Stock; Two Thoughts … I quite happy with, say, getting myself a TaskRabbit or setting up an MTurk "process" to do it for me. You know, like a person, or an intern …
• ep 72 2014-05-02 1,898 words · 9 min read Symptom Masquerading As Disruption (2); The Model Is The Modeled; Labour Not Employment; Superstar Ratings, Here We Go; Not Swarm … And, you know, first attempt at providing an API layer for humans that's more nuanced, I think, than Mechanical Turk, which I should've referenced earlier. But …