The computer showed a photo of what looked like a school board meeting.My job was to rate it on a scale of 1 to 5 for 23 different qualities: "patriotic," "elitist," "reassuring" and so on.I did the same for a photo of a woman wearing headphones -- I gave her a 4 for "
My job was to rate it on a scale of 1 to 5 for 23 different qualities: “patriotic,” “elitist,” “reassuring” and so on.
It works like this: Employers, known as requesters, post batches of what are called Human Intelligence Tasks, or HITs, on Mechanical Turk’s website. A task could be transcribing an invoice, or taking part in a study, or labeling photographs to train an artificial intelligence program. Story continuesPlenty turk full time. In a 2016 Pew Research Center survey of nearly 3,000 American turkers, a quarter said they made most or all of their earned income on the platform. More than half the turkers surveyed said they earned under $5 an hour.As little as turking appears to pay on paper, in practice it often pays less because MTurk, as it is known, is a sloppy, shoddy free-for-all.
It has ignored turkers’ pleas to mandate higher wages, even as it takes a cut of each transaction ranging from 17 to 50%; a requester posting a 1-cent HIT pays one penny to the turker and another to Amazon. Crowdwork’s proponents see a gleaming future — a borderless, no-overhead labor market where task-creator and task-doer meet at the intersection of supply and demand. Its critics see a throwback to something more Dickensian, where the lack of regulation and accountability keeps workers in the dark and on the defensive.
I imagined myself as an “active investor” and rated the prospect of my supporting a Kickstarter for a device that makes nut milk “extremely likely.” While the pay is “really low,” she said, she prefers turking to fast food for its freedom — freedom from having to wear a uniform, freedom to spend time at home with her mother, freedom to watch videos between tasks.
She turks at least 50 hours a week, sets herself a minimum goal of $20 a day and usually makes $30 to $50. Mechanical Turk opened to the public in 2005 with considerable fanfare. “Market forces will define how effective it is for requesters and how lucrative it is for workers,” an Amazon executive, Peter Cohen, said at the time.
Many major corporations have availed themselves of Mechanical Turk. The New York Times Co. has used turkers for at least three data projects. When the script catches a task that pays a dollar or more, her computer blasts a snippet of operatic rock and she grabs the HIT and sets it aside until she has a bunch. “I’ll queue ’em up and kick ’em all out,” she said.
Jeff Archacki of Corvallis, Oregon, is 60 and a former IT worker and computer store owner. Since 2014, he has gotten by on disability payments for a hand injury, and turking. Why was this presumably confidential patient information posted on Mechanical Turk, a platform open to anyone with access to an email address?Another occupational hazard of turking is HITs that contain graphic imagery. A few years ago, Milland did some work describing photos circulated by the Islamic State.
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