“A man is less responsible for rape if he is affected by drugs or alcohol.” I quickly clicked my mouse over to the right button, “Strongly Disagree.” My eyes burned. I had answered this question three ...

The promise of the gig economy—that it would empower workers to be their own bosses, liberate them from tyrannical office culture, and let creative types chase their dreams while maintaining a side ...

Amazon Mechanical Turk is a micro-tasking platform that pairs company’s needing small tasks completed with freelancers looking for extra cash. Here’s how it works. Amazon Mechanical Turk, or “MTurk” ...

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk for short), an online marketplace for digital piece-work, is not somewhere you’re going to get rich any time soon. Most of its tasks are miniscule, and so are the ...

Inside Amazon’s clickworker platform: How half a million people are being paid pennies to train AI Your email has been sent Internet platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk let companies break jobs into ...

Tired of journalism’s glamour and prestige, I decided to take a second job last week. I went to Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk website—a sort of virtual job fair matching thousands of businesses and ...