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On one level it's quite cool to see human intelligence pipelined as a service, but on another I worry that this may represent a new form of slavery with the tur
by motters 16y ago
On one level it's quite cool to see human intelligence pipelined as a service, but on another I worry that this may represent a new form of slavery with the turkers being paid at such a low level that other social problems may arise as a consequence.
- akozak 16y agoWhile I'm sympathetic to this worry about crowdsourcing (which Jonathan Zittrain has been writing and speaking about for years), I'm still optimistic that the architecture of ecosystems like Mechanical Turk can protect people from exploitation. And hopefully the market will set fair compensation per task (although I don't think it has yet).
- mahmud 16y agoI pulled out my credit card for an audio transcription API when I took a look at some minor footnote: "powered by people". Felt really disgusted.