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Views from Mechanical Turk
- 1970-01-01 3y ago>The purpose of this website >As organisations use Mechanical Turk to create datasets, in this website a more private dataset is shown. Following the logic of the platform, for a small fee workers have been asked to show a glimpse of their private life, their view close to their desk, their working station. At the limit of ethics and labour exploitation we should ask ourselves whether this is an acceptable approach to use in research and in general, if employing randomic workers around the world is the ideal practice to shape future artificial intelligences. Nice idea, however I don't follow the logic. We're looking out of people's windows. The data are heavily biased for locations within the USA. Cicero is a photo of a cat, and the photo from Boston, MA looks like a fantastic place to work. So again, why should these non-random photos guide our level of ethical comfort? It doesn't make sense.