Sentences with word «turker»

This is vital because around 20 per cent of Turkers say that they always or sometimes need money earned during crowd work to make ends meet, according to a small survey carried out by Irani.
FAST COMPANY - Feb 1 - Lauren McCarthy, an artist and programmer is currently beta - testing Social Turkers.
This data reportedly included information siphoned from hundreds of thousands of Amazon Mechanical Turkers who were paid to use a «personality prediction app» that collected data from them and also anyone they were friends with — about 50 million accounts.
The taste of herbs in turker burgers is so delish.
The requester's review score is then attached to every task they offer, letting Turkers make more informed decisions about the tasks they choose.
Rejecting work out of hand might earn a requester poor scores in fairness and communicativity, while giving high - performing Turkers a bonus for their work might boost the generosity score.
It allows Turkers to leave feedback on requesters that anyone else using the network can see, rating them out of five on «communicativity, generosity, fairness and promptness».
am cool friendly i hate lies i believe telling the truth makes you free i do watch movies alot documentaries and comedy shows eg my wife and kids chris rock and turker generally am always there for you solong you do nt sh..
My wishes to all old and new turkers.
First, Global Science Research was only interested in American turkers.
«Turking makes us our rent money and helps pay off debt,» one turker told The Intercept.
The company offered turkers $ 1 or $ 2 to complete an online survey.
Essentially, the Cambridge Analytica crew tricked turkers into a downloading a tool on Facebook that exposed both the worker, and their friends in exchange for $ 1 or $ 2 to complete an online survey.
Throughout the date, the «social Turkers» answered polls, wrote reviews of what they are seeing, and sent text messages to her iPhone suggesting what to say or do next.
270,000 Amazon Mechanical Turkers were paid to use the app.
Last weekend's Cambridge Analytica news — that the company was able to access tens of millions of users» data by paying low - wage workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to take a Facebook survey, which gave Cambridge Analytica access to Facebook's dossier on each of those turkers» Facebook friends — has hammered home two problems: first...
The scheme would show «Turkers» a photo of a protest, or just faces extracted from one, along with five randomly chosen photos from the country's ID card database, and asked to say whether or not there is any match.
Turkers, as they are known, have no idea whether an individual «requester» is likely to pay them promptly for their work, or even at all, as requesters can choose to reject work without any repercussions.
The Guardian had published a report that exposed exactly who the turkers were working for.
In late 2015, the turkers began reporting that the Global Science Research survey had abruptly shut down.
Years before the arrival of Kogan's turkers, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg tried to address privacy concerns around the company's controversial Beacon program, which quietly funneled data from outside websites into Facebook, often without Facebook users being aware of the process.
Some of the turkers noticed that the Global Science Research app appeared to be taking advantage of Facebook's porousness.
Kogan disputed this at the time, telling The Guardian that his turker surveys had collected no more than «a couple of thousand responses» for any one client.
Second, the turkers had to download a Facebook app before they could collect payment.
Another turker has called the work «voluntary slave labor.»
The «turkers,» as they're known, tend to perform work that is rote and repetitive, like flagging pornographic images or digging through search engine results for email addresses.
Last weekend's Cambridge Analytica news — that the company was able to access tens of millions of users» data by paying low - wage workers on Amazon's Mechanical Turk to take a Facebook survey, which gave Cambridge Analytica access to Facebook's dossier on each of those turkers» Facebook friends — has hammered home two problems: first...
Kogan built an application that leveraged Facebook's tools to pull information from the site and then pitched its use using Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a tool that allows developers to hire humans (sometimes then referred to as «turkers») to do simple tasks for small fees.
The Intercept, in its investigation last year, talked about how this system worked for both Cambridge Analytica, and Amazon's «turkers»:
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