My Amazon Mechanical Turk Review. I honestly don't do a lot on mTurk because of the seriously low pay. Although I realize ...

“Mechanical Turk workers have been treated really, really badly for 12 years, and so in some ways I see this as a point of resistance," she says. "If we were paid fairly on the platform, nobody ...

The workers of Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s on-demand micro-task platform, say they have encountered mutilated bodies, graphic videos of botched surgeries, and what appeared to be child pornography.

A recent Mechanical Turk listing, for example, offered workers 80 cents to read a restaurant review and then answer a survey about their impressions of it; the time limit was 45 minutes.

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is important because in a perfect world, it could be the ultimate hub for the “human cloud” – an amorphous, pan-national, always-on pool of labor usable by ...

Inside Amazon’s Mechanical Turk: thousands of humans tackling the more than 150,000 jobs posted at any given time. ‘Qualification tests’ can be used to find workers with the right skills.

We did a study where we followed hundreds of Amazon Mechanical Turk workers for several years, and we found that they were earning around $2 per hour. This is much less than the US minimum wage.

Mechanical Turk takes its name from an 18th-century scam. In 1770 Wolfgang von Kempelen built what he touted as an automaton chess player. Think of it as the original Deep Blue.

Amazon Mechanical Turk isn’t just an open market. They’re much more complicit. The company gets a 25-40 percent commission from every request and has likely made millions off the backs of ...