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Artificial intelligence quietly relies on workers earning $2 per hour - BBC Science Focus Magazine Amazon Mechanical Turk, described as "artificial artificial intelligence", uses low-paid workers to complete mini-tasks that AI can't do on its own.

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Wiki of the Day Listen to today's episode

The featured Wiki of the Day for Sunday, 30 November 2025, is Mechanical Turk.

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featured Wiki of the Day Episode 3131

The featured Wiki of the Day for Sunday, 30 November 2025, is Mechanical Turk.

Listen to the new episode here: wikioftheday.com/wotdep.php

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The Neo Robot is a $20,000 Roomba But Worse

I want someone to make a quick #indie #game where you are the remote operator and are trying to hide some inevitable accidents from the family. Like whenever you do what you're told, something terrible happens. The hardware malfunctions, you're clumsy […]

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the #MechanicalTurk was actually a kind of fraud

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I'm hearing more noises about freelancers picking up short contracts to urgently fix "A.I."-generated code at ~2x market rates. Apparently, under NDAs to never reveal who these clients are. Impossible to verify, and we may never know.

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How this Microsoft-backed billion-dollar London startup made 700 engineers sitting in India pose as AI
TIMESOFINDIA.COM

How this Microsoft-backed billion-dollar London startup made 700 engineers sitting in India pose as AI TIMESOFINDIA.COM

London-based Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its "AI-powered" app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said to be around 700 of them, pretending to be artificial intelligence.

London-based Builder.ai, once valued at $1.5 billion and backed by Microsoft and Qatar's sovereign wealth fund, has filed for bankruptcy after reports that its "AI-powered" app development platform was actually operated by Indian engineers, said to be around 700 of them, pretending to be artificial intelligence.

The company now owes $85 million to Amazon and $30 million to Microsoft in cloud computing fees, while approximately 1,000 employees have lost their jobs.
The failure highlights growing concerns about "AI washing," companies rebranding conventional technology services as artificial intelligence to attract investment in the current AI boom.

The company now owes $85 million to Amazon and $30 million to Microsoft in cloud computing fees, while approximately 1,000 employees have lost their jobs. The failure highlights growing concerns about "AI washing," companies rebranding conventional technology services as artificial intelligence to attract investment in the current AI boom.

Der " #MechanicalTurk" - war im 18. Jhd ein gefakter Schach-Computer, in dem ein Mensch saß.

2025 fliegt ein Mrd $ schweres "KI-Startup" auf, das "KI-basierte Programmierung" vertickerte, aber gar keine #KI einsetzte, sondern 700 Inder:innen. #AIwashing

timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/t...

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Builder.ai® - Composable Software Development Platform Get your software applications developed easily. AI makes developing your software applications on our award-winning platform faster and more cost-effective. See how it works.

La licorne d'IA Builder.ai, autrefois valorisée à 1,5 milliard de dollars, a fait passer le travail de développeurs basés en Inde pour l'automatisation d'une IA pendant huit ans. — Mechanical Turk for the win, ou pas...

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New comic! The Mechanical Turk, curious chess machine, takes on the Emperor of France! #history #comic #chess #mechanicalturk

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New comic! See the Mechanical Turk — a chess-playing automaton (or so its inventor claims, anyway). #comic #history #chess #mechanicalturk

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Before AI could code or compose, it could… bluff. The Mechanical Turk fooled the world into thinking it could think. Are we still chasing illusions in 2025? 🤖
#AIHistory #ThrowbackTech #MechanicalTurk #AIInnovationsUnleashed
www.aiinnovationsunleashed.com/?p=1920

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What happens if Mechanical Turk crowd workers start using LLMs to do their work? cacm.acm.org/research/pre... #mechanicalturk #crowd #llms #crowdwork

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Quand on apprendra que DeepSeek c'est en fait une armée de Chinois payés au rabais qui répondent...
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Turning back time to the Clockwork State – Acuity Design

2 mini-blogs from yesterday:

1) On the 18th century Clockwork State ideal based on a tech demo con acuity.design/turning-back... #AI #MechanicalTurk

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Just saw @markhamillofficial.bsky.social in his guest appearance on What We Do in the Shadows (S2.E6). Hilarious! 🤣 #JimTheVampire #MechanicalTurk #AmEntertained

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Timnit Gebru (she/her) @timnitgebru@dair-community.social writes

Richard talks about deliberate efforts to recruit people from informal settlements because if you ask them to jump, they will say how hi. They will not question what is being done to them because they are so vulnerable.

Timnit Gebru (she/her) @timnitgebru@dair-community.social writes Richard talks about deliberate efforts to recruit people from informal settlements because if you ask them to jump, they will say how hi. They will not question what is being done to them because they are so vulnerable.

The former AI ethicist at google, flagging up that behind AI are people, often without secure homes or status, being targetted to do the hard and traumatising work of moderating AI content.

See link for details.
dair-community.social/@timnitGebru...

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Day 4021 - Fascism & AI Eat Culture 
Alternating pattern of fine multicolored detail being eaten by large Red s and black patterns

Day 4021 - Fascism & AI Eat Culture Alternating pattern of fine multicolored detail being eaten by large Red s and black patterns

Day 4021 - Fascism & AI Eat Culture stillwellgray.ca/blog/day-402... #everydayart #everyday #art #snapseed #mirrorlab #glitchlab #atomized #individual #victimized #funged #replaceableparts #mechanicalturk 📸📷

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