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Over 40% of New Mechanical Turk Jobs Involve Spam

Posted by Soulskill on from the lower-than-expected dept.

An anonymous reader writes "An NYU study reveals that over 40% of the jobs posted by new employers on MTurk are some sort of spam request, such as fake account creation, fraudulent ad clicks, or fake comments, tweets, likes and votes. The study also shows that the bad jobs could be automatically filtered with 95% accuracy, but Amazon is not interested."

2 of 56 comments (clear)

  1. Filtering by AndrewNeo · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, would the filtering of bad services from MTurk be performed using MTurk?

  2. Re:Hmmm by forkfail · · Score: 4, Funny

    So, obviously, Wikileaks should have hired people at 0.0001 cents per word to type in the leaked documents.

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