Hundreds of workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) platform were left unable to work after mass account suspensions caused by a suspected glitch in the e-commerce giant’s payments system.

Mechanical Turk is a marketplace offered by Amazon that lets companies outsource application development tasks that require real people. Tasks can include analyzing imagery, collecting and editing ...

Some Mechanical Turk workers started contacting GeekWire after the outage of Amazon.com’s checkout system on Friday afternoon, theorizing that the two issues were related.

Context first because so much of what we've seen throughout the course of human history is just one big scam . . . The "Mechanical Turk" was in fact a mechanical illusion that allowed a human chess ...

For the study, more than 250 people read real Amazon reviews, which were either pseudo-positive, pseudo-negative, genuine-positive, and genuine-negative, and reported how likely they were to buy the ...

The Amazon Mechanical Turk website, or mturk.com, on April 23, 2014. Daniel Acker—Bloomberg/Getty Images What is the data used for?

In August 2022, a company called AI Insights issued a huge request for services on Amazon Mechanical Turk, an Amazon-owned marketplace where a globally crowdsourced pool of individual data workers can ...

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61% of wholesale sellers on Amazon earn $5,000 or more in monthly sales, and there’s no special experience required to make a profit as a wholesale seller. What’s more, you can do it from home!

Turkopticon lead organiser Krystal Kauffman speaks with Computer Weekly about the workplace issues faced by remote Mechanical Turk workers, who are responsible for training artificial intelligence ...