I did it years ago when I was a teenager with no real job. There were a bunch of higher-paying jobs like lecture transcription that would be a few bucks each. I made enough to buy a GPU off Amazon (~$80, some of which was from a leftover gift card).
Now I’m sure that ML-AI can do those jobs much faster and cheaper, for about the same accuracy.
Lmaydev@programming.dev
on 29 Feb 2024 17:02
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They’re mainly used to train AI so that would be a bad move
circuitfarmer@lemmy.world
on 29 Feb 2024 19:17
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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.
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.
menemen@lemmy.world
on 29 Feb 2024 16:06
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Being a Turk myself: what do I have to do, to get my money?
After looking into this: is this name racist?
AbidanYre@lemmy.world
on 29 Feb 2024 16:15
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Lmaydev@programming.dev
on 29 Feb 2024 17:00
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It’s actually a pretty accurate and slightly clever name haha
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world
on 29 Feb 2024 17:02
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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.
vikingqueef@leminal.space
on 29 Feb 2024 16:52
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altima_neo@lemmy.zip
on 29 Feb 2024 16:30
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What’s a turker? I’ve never heard that term before, aside from final fantasy viii.
elmicha@feddit.de
on 29 Feb 2024 16:45
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If you can’t guess it, you could read the first sentence of the article.
ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.works
on 29 Feb 2024 16:56
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Read the first paragraphs of the article (till the paywall), still have no clue what a “turk” is.
Maybe I’m just dense.
Evilcoleslaw@lemmy.world
on 29 Feb 2024 17:08
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Amazon Mechanical Turk is a service where people can do simple tasks for small amounts of money. Usually things you would expect to be automated, especially in this day and age. I did it for a bit about a decade or so ago. Things like small amounts of proofreading, transcription, etc.
The name is a reference to a hoax device made in the late 1700s that was supposedly a chess playing automaton. In actuality it was operated by a person hiding within. It was nicknamed the Mechanical Turk because it had a model of the head and torso of a person dressed in Ottoman robes, etc.
“A workers rights group for Mechanical Turk workers says that at least dozens of MTurk workers have been suddenly locked out of the Amazon-owned microlabor platform, suggesting a widespread issue that is denying these people the ability to work and in some cases denying them access to money they have already made on the platform.”
Yea, that really helped (it didn’t).
BombOmOm@lemmy.world
on 29 Feb 2024 17:09
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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.
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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.
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.
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I did it years ago when I was a teenager with no real job. There were a bunch of higher-paying jobs like lecture transcription that would be a few bucks each. I made enough to buy a GPU off Amazon (~$80, some of which was from a leftover gift card).
Now I’m sure that ML-AI can do those jobs much faster and cheaper, for about the same accuracy.
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.
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.
Being a Turk myself: what do I have to do, to get my money?
After looking into this: is this name racist?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
It’s actually a pretty accurate and slightly clever name haha
So, I mean, as a reference to the historical device perhaps not racist but the origin of the name is probably kinda racist.
Are you a … young turk?
Nah, old fart turk.
What’s a turker? I’ve never heard that term before, aside from final fantasy viii.
If you can’t guess it, you could read the first sentence of the article.
Read the first paragraphs of the article (till the paywall), still have no clue what a “turk” is.
Maybe I’m just dense.
Amazon Mechanical Turk is a service where people can do simple tasks for small amounts of money. Usually things you would expect to be automated, especially in this day and age. I did it for a bit about a decade or so ago. Things like small amounts of proofreading, transcription, etc.
The name is a reference to a hoax device made in the late 1700s that was supposedly a chess playing automaton. In actuality it was operated by a person hiding within. It was nicknamed the Mechanical Turk because it had a model of the head and torso of a person dressed in Ottoman robes, etc.
“A workers rights group for Mechanical Turk workers says that at least dozens of MTurk workers have been suddenly locked out of the Amazon-owned microlabor platform, suggesting a widespread issue that is denying these people the ability to work and in some cases denying them access to money they have already made on the platform.”
Yea, that really helped (it didn’t).
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.