• BombOmOm
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    9 months ago

    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.

    • @jeffw
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      9 months ago

      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.

    • @[email protected]
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      139 months ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
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        139 months ago

        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.

          • circuitfarmer
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            88 months ago

            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.