Amazon Mechanical Turk
This is a marketplace from Amazon literally named after the phenomenon of Mechanical Turks. A little too on the nose? It’s a marketplace where developers can hire humans to complete tasks computers have a hard time completing. The tasks could be almost anything, from labeling images to training artificial intelligence to moderate online content.
Real people could be paid as little as one penny for a task, largely for tasks where humans posed as automation. There were horror stories that surfaced around this where gig workers were exposed to graphic images or transcribing Social Security numbers.
