Inside Amazon's clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI - TechRepublic

I get this completely, cuz I also find myself tied to my computer too based on the nature of Mturk, but I'm also set up pretty efficiently with multiple different tools to find work for me, so out of all the time I spend at the computer, I don't think I spend even half of it working, except on really good days. I just play video games, wait for dings and check my queue. So is that 8 hours worth of work if I spend 8 hours on my computer? Not really. I don't think the worker they interviewed thinks so either, cuz she said earlier in the Mturk IRC (when this article was being discussed) that her words were misconstrued.

I'm impressed that an article on turkers actually focused on real topics, like how you basically become fused to your computer desk, and it's cool that it also delved into the master's qual a little, it's just a shame that the journo in question just HAD to go and make it yet another "turkers are exploited!!!" article in the end. They got so close to relevancy and then did what every other journalist has done in the past anyway.

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