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[Barretts Mail]

1. https://tinyurl.com/r43exsa <https://tinyurl.com/r43exsa>
I Found Work on an Amazon Website. I Made 97 Cents an Hour.
By Andy Newman
15 Nov 2019

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Inside the weird, wild, low-wage world of Mechanical Turk….

On Mechanical Turk — named for a chess-playing “machine” from the 18th century that concealed a living chess master — scores of thousands of humans earn pennies or dollars doing tasks that computers cannot yet easily do.

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Freelance workers, known informally as turkers, race to grab and do the tasks, providing what Amazon’s founder, Jeff Bezos, once called “artificial artificial intelligence.”

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People turk to save for a motorcycle. They turk to buy insulin. They turk to pay off debt or pass the time profitably while on the clock at a boring job.
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Not in the OED or Merriam-Webster. Wiktionary has “Turker” (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Turker <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Turker>): A person who does small tasks as part of the Amazon Mechanical Turk service.

Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk>) provides citations from 2009 and 2010.

2. https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2009/03/turker-demographics-vs-internet.html <https://www.behind-the-enemy-lines.com/2009/03/turker-demographics-vs-internet.html>
Turker Demographics vs Internet Demographics
By Panos Ipeirotis
16 Mar 2009

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So, how Turkers compare to the general US Internet population? The short answers:
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Comment by Terrell:

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Can you tell us how many of your 100 turkers from each sample are the same turkers from sample to sample?
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3. http://neural.it/2010/10/mechanical-games-online-sports-video-for-turkers/ <http://neural.it/2010/10/mechanical-games-online-sports-video-for-turkers/>
Mechanical Games, online sports video for turkers
Chiara Ciociola
29 Oct 2010

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Mechanical Games, online sports video for turkers

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There are a few simple rules to follow: the “turkers” upload the video of their performance on YouTube, highlighting a printed sheet filled with details of the chosen discipline and country of origin, in exchange for a small fee.

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Benjamin Barrett (he/his/him)
Formerly of Seattle, WA
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