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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."

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  1. Amazon is not interested by whathappenedtomonday · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Because Amazon only cares about ToS, and about nothing else.

    "We look forward to continuing to serve our AWS customers and are excited about several new things we have coming your way in the next few months."

    Well, I'm looking forward to you confirming the deletion of my account I requested a week ago. And that 2nd part sounds like a threat.

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    I hope I didn't brain my damage.
  2. Profit by The+Raven · · Score: 4, Insightful

    Same reason the USPS likes bulk mailers... they keep the operation afloat. Especially as more and more people turn to email.

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    "I will trust Google to 'do no evil' until the founders no longer run it." Hello Alphabet.