Mechanical Turk began life as a service that Amazon itself needed.
The company opened Mechanical Turk as a public site in November 2005.
She saw Mechanical Turk as a kind of virtual sweatshop.
However, the Mechanical Turk is a more general marketplace that can potentially help distribute any kind of work tasks all over the world.
However, at least some workers on Mechanical Turk are people who do the work for fun.
These questions are often far less simple than tasks posted on services like Mechanical Turk, and the payments are accordingly higher.
The company also promised to remove the offending reviews, and the postings from Mechanical Turk.
Like Mechanical Turk, this task is simple for humans but would be incredibly difficult for computers.
Two-thirds had annual incomes less than $10,000/yr, with 27% sometimes or always depending on income from Mechanical Turk to make ends meet.
And they used Mechanical Turk to do this.