Amazon Mechanical Turk Description
Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) serves as a crowdsourcing platform that facilitates the outsourcing of various tasks and projects by individuals and businesses to a widely distributed workforce capable of carrying out these assignments remotely. This range of tasks can span from basic data validation and research to more nuanced activities, including survey participation and content moderation. By leveraging the diverse skills, intelligence, and insights of a global community, MTurk allows companies to enhance their business operations, improve data collection and analysis, and speed up the development of machine learning models. Despite ongoing technological advancements, there remain numerous areas where humans outperform computers, such as content moderation, data deduplication, and certain research tasks. Historically, addressing these needs involved hiring a large temporary workforce, a process that can be both costly and challenging to scale effectively. As a result, many tasks have either been neglected or poorly executed, highlighting the necessity for platforms like MTurk in modern business practices.
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Freelance Management Software
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Few regulations on prices Date: Nov 23 2020
Summary: There are people who make a good amount of side money off of this, though certainly no one makes enough to live off of every month. For businesses, labor comes cheaply, but with seemingly no bottom out on what they allow people to charge per task and task length, it just comes off really scummy. I personally feel a more ethical business wouldn't use a service like this out of principle.
Positive: From a business standpoint, you can get a lot of cheap labor through this. And there are guides out there from a worker's end for how to make some decent side money.
Negative: Amazon doesn't seem to regulate whatsoever the prices they allow people to ask for work for. It's not as bad as it used to be, but compared to other microtask services out there, this one comes off as one of the more unethical ones.
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