Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments accounts without explanation due to an apparent technical problem in the ...

“The Turk” was a famous hoax perpetrated in 1769 by Wolfgang von Kempelen. According to the Wikipedia article on “The Turk” the hoax consisted of a “maplewood cabinet 4 feet long by 2 feet deep and 3 ...

In August 2022, a company called AI Insights issued a huge request for services on Amazon Mechanical Turk, an Amazon-owned marketplace where a globally crowdsourced pool of individual data workers can ...

A personality quiz on Amazon's Mechanical Turk received multiple complaints in 2014, but the quiz-makers continued to use the platform for at least another year. For one month, I became the ...

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk platform, which launched in 2005, has allowed humans to make some money on the side by completing small tasks such as data validation or simple transcriptions that “require ...

A new paper from researchers at Swiss university EPFL suggests that between 33% and 46% of distributed crowd workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service appear to have “cheated” when performing a ...

Volunteers are using Mechanical Turk, an Amazon.com Web service, to comb over pictures from Google Earth in hopes of finding missing adventurer Steve Fossett Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk is enlisting ...

File this one under inevitable but hilarious. Mechanical Turk is a service that from its earliest days seemed to invite shenanigans, and indeed researchers show that nearly half of its “turkers” ...

We owe our understanding of human behavior thanks, in part, to Bob. He spends hours some days as a subject in academic psychology studies, filling out surveys on crowd-work platforms like Amazon’s ...