• Frank [he/him, he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 months ago

    Amazon’s Mechanical Turk program is/was basically this. Farming out small editing or image recognition tasks to people in the global south who may or may not actually get paid a pittance for it.

    • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]@hexbear.net
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      2 months ago

      man i remember one time I basically got paid $20/hr to, based on a series of screenshots, make a title for a porn video. My god it was easy money, but the tasks ran out and never came back 😔