Yes, that’s where amazon got the name of their service from
Yes, that’s where amazon got the name of their service from
I’m not exactly sure how they would have set this up given that their usual solution of Mechanical Turk does not pay their workers in cash anywhere outside of the US.
In some rural parts of the states Mechanical Turk is the largest employer but workers in other countries can only get paid in Amazon vouchers.
Somehow there are still a lot of Indian people working for Mechanical Turk though. It’s not clear if they are exchanging the vouchers or are stuck in a hellish walled garden where their wages can only be spent with their employer.
Yeah it was always suspect when this “shopping experience” came from the company behind Mechanical Turk.
I’m looking forward to the Year of the Linux desktop ™️
I think they might have a point about the moderation issue. It’s the same story on mastodon and the fediverse where there is too much to moderate and prolific ban evaders can run rampant.
For what it’s worth I believe that rough edges like this are a small negative compared to the postives of being able to use social media without being under the yoke of a big tech company.
That’s their excuse but it is convenient for them that in order to train the AI the workers need to follow the exact same steps as what an AI would be doing if it was sufficiently trained. We can’t say as outsiders to what extent the actual work is assisted by AI. Seems likely that it is largely a manual process.