Amazon’s Mechanical Turk is a neat idea, but I’ve often wondered why people don’t consider it slave labor the way they might a Nike sweatshop. (Nike settled.)And then High Scalability has a post about getting work done for free albeit this time to fight spam.
$2 you can buy 1000 human broken CAPTCHA’s
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