Being a Turk myself: what do I have to do, to get my money?
After looking into this: is this name racist?
The machine consisted of a life-sized model of a human head and torso, with a black beard and grey eyes,[6] and dressed in Ottoman robes and a turban—“the traditional costume”, according to journalist and author Tom Standage, “of an oriental sorcerer”. Its left arm held a long Ottoman smoking pipe while at rest, while its right lay on the top of a large cabinet
So, I mean, as a reference to the historical device perhaps not racist but the origin of the name is probably kinda racist.
It’s actually a pretty accurate and slightly clever name haha
Are you a … young turk?
Nah, old fart turk.
Amazon Turk pays like trash too. Though, if you have a favorable currency conversion ratio, might not be bad for you.
Looked into it a few years ago to see if I could use it for some extra spending money when I was bored. Wasn’t worth it.
Go back a decade and it was a little better. I used some scripts that optimized things, along with the Turkopticon community this article mentions and a subreddit for high paying tasks.
Yeah, I played with it a couple of times to see what it was like. I now have about eighty cents in us currency sitting in my PayPal. Woo.
Removed by mod
They’re mainly used to train AI so that would be a bad move
Many companies are using AI to generate AI training data. Most of them are data brokers where the margins are becoming razor thin. It’s totally a bad idea, but it is definitely happening.
deleted by creator
What’s a turker? I’ve never heard that term before, aside from final fantasy viii.
Amazon has a service called Mechanical Turk. Businesses put up listings for small jobs and random people complete the small jobs for a set amount of money. The jobs are things like ‘transcribe this lecture’ or ‘fill out this survey’. The goal is to connect small jobs with low-skill workers.
Some of the tasks are more involved than that and require proof of knowledge. But, that is the gist.
