Amazon Mechanical Turk Description
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), a crowdsourcing marketplace, makes it easy for businesses and individuals to outsource their processes to a distributed workforce that can perform these tasks virtually. This could be anything from data validation and research to more subjective tasks such as survey participation, content moderating, and many more. MTurk allows companies to tap into the collective intelligence, skills and insights of a global workforce to streamline business processes and augment data collection and analysis. It also accelerates machine learning development. Technology is improving, but there are still many tasks that humans can do better than computers. These include moderating content, data deduplication, and research. These tasks were traditionally done by large temporary workers, which can be costly, time-consuming, and difficult to scale.
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Summary: There are people who make a good amount of side money off of this, though certainly no one makes enough to live off of every month. For businesses, labor comes cheaply, but with seemingly no bottom out on what they allow people to charge per task and task length, it just comes off really scummy. I personally feel a more ethical business wouldn't use a service like this out of principle.
Positive: From a business standpoint, you can get a lot of cheap labor through this. And there are guides out there from a worker's end for how to make some decent side money.
Negative: Amazon doesn't seem to regulate whatsoever the prices they allow people to ask for work for. It's not as bad as it used to be, but compared to other microtask services out there, this one comes off as one of the more unethical ones.
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