Nate, an AI shopping app, went even further. Launched in 2019 and marketed as a cutting-edge fintech solution, it promised a one-tap shopping experience that could automatically fill out checkout ...

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 ...

An Amazon diagram about the Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform. Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments ...

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 ...

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 ...

Amazon's Mechanical Turk let users divide simple tasks into any number of small subtasks that take only a few seconds to do, and which pay pennies — but dedicated piecemeal workers would ...

Mechanical Turk is a service that from its earliest days seemed to invite shenanigans, and indeed researchers show that nearly half of its "turkers" appear to be using AI to do tasks that were ...