AWS mturk Worker
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An AWS mturk Worker is a crowdsourced worker who can perform mturk HIT tasks (on mturk).
- Context:
- They earned between $2 and $3 per hour, on average.
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- Example(s):
- Counter-Example(s):
- a Kaggle Contestant, such as a CPROD1 contestant.
- a StackOverflow Volunteer.
- See: mturk Requester.
References
2014
- James Vincent. (2014). “Amazon's Mechanical Turkers want to be recognized as 'actual human beings'.” In: The Verge
- Users signed up to Amazon’s 'crowdworking' marketplace Mechanical Turk say they're tired of being marketed as algorithms for cheap labor and have started a letter writing campaign asking Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos to recognize them as "actual human beings [...] who deserve respect, fair treatment and open communication."
2010
- Christopher Mims. (2010). “How Mechanical Turk is Broken." MIT Review, January 3, 2010.
- ABSTRACT: Why the world’s most famous outsourcing hub for tiny tasks is littered with spam and shoddy workmanship.