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Surely they should be vetting to ensure the job is legal and doesn't break any laws.

• SwellJoe 17y ago
  If they were to do so, beyond merely making people agree to terms of service that prohibit such things, they would very likely open themselves up to a lot more legal liability. If they did claim to review and filter projects, and they missed one, they could then be liable for whatever horrible things happened as a result of someone performing the task. I'm pretty sure being a neutral exchange, where both buyer and seller beware (though each has processes for remedying lack of performance or lack of payment), is a safer model for Amazon. On top of the seeming additional liability Amazon would be inflicting on themselves, I can't see any upside to Amazon going to extra lengths. It would anger project creators to have to wait for human approval for every project, it would likely reduce the number of jobs underway at any given time (making it less profitable for them and less lucrative a market for service providers), and it would increase the expense of running the market at human scale rather than computer scale (even if they somehow figured out how to use Mechanical Turk itself to provide the vetting). In short, vetting jobs would be a recipe for a fiery death for Mechanical Turk.