[Ads-l] turker, to turk

[Nancy Friedman]

Here’s a bit more, from 2009 and 2001:

https://nancyfriedman.typepad.com/away_with_words/2009/07/word-of-the-week-turker.html

On Mon, Nov 18, 2019, 3:53 AM Barretts Mail <mail.barretts at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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.
>
> …
>
> 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.”
>
> …
>
> 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
>
> …
>
> 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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