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 turk was a human chessmaster stuffed under ... I’d recommend trying it out. Amazon’s payment system allows you to withdraw funds once a day, and there’s no limit on how much or how ...

Inside Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: thousands of humans tackling the ... No coasting, here. The pay varies. Some jobs pay nothing. ‘Workers’ do them, presumably, to qualify for better paying ...

Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments accounts without explanation due to an apparent technical problem in ...

and Amazon’s Mechanical Turk, to name a few. Largely unregulated, these sites allow businesses and individuals to post short tasks and pay workers—in cash or, sometimes, gift cards—to ...

But Amazon Mechanical Turk, by all accounts ... 550-plus members recruit over 100 academic researchers to pledge fair payment and open communication policies. And under Milland’s leadership ...

such as photo recognition or comment moderation (see “Amazon Turk Will Hook You Up With Porn Jobs That Pay Pennies”). Artificial artificial Intelligence, as Amazon calls it. Forty-percent of ...

Today the Mechanical Turk is a service Amazon provides, linking workers with people who need tasks done. Some pay as little as a penny. Critics call Mechanical Turk a digital sweatshop.