Networked Sweatshops
by Charlie Tims
Ugh. Shudder. Turk: Amazon’s service for HITs.
“HIT stands for Human Intelligence Task. These are tasks that people are willing to pay you to complete. For example a HIT might ask: "Is there a pizza parlour in this photograph?" Typically these tasks are extraordinarily difficult for computers, but simple for humans to answer.”
The mighty Big Shiny Thing prophesise that the emergence of this, combined wih the developing world’s endless supply of minds & $100 laptops will create the “decade of exploitunity”.