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0 pointsswarnie1y ago0 comments

Oh lord you need to rephrase that....

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Which part? Mechanical turk is an Amazon service for crowdsourcing work, and Africa has cheap IT literate labor so would be a good source for this type of work.

mtmail1y ago

Cheap IT literate labor can be found around the world (also thanks to Mechanical Turk and similar services), no need to single out one region.

qeternity1y ago

What is the issue with singling out a region with a factual statement?

It wasn't a pejorative comment. Africa and SE Asia have huge labor forces that perform this work.

People really need to stop trying so hard to be offended.

rolph1y ago

Mechanical_turk == Automaton

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_turk

stonogo1y ago

No, it is specifically not an automaton. It has a human operator.

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