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The Mechanical Turk gives Red Sails an F.
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~~"the mechanical turk"? Really? Do I need to explain how that's racist?~~ uh wait this one might only apply to german after all.
Just a reference to The Mechanical Turk, a much older scam presented as "Technology". Ironically Amazon has a service called Amazon Mechanical Turk, where their service is described as:
Services like MTurk (also called Microwork Platforms) offload and disperse small labor tasks across a large pool of laborers, mainly in the global south, and the clients then pass off this labor as AI. Thus making the name Amazon Mechanical Turk very on the nose.
Just like the original MTurk, which claimed to possess advanced logic that could play chess at a high level but was actually piloted by a human, Amazon MTurk uses actual human intelligence to complete microwork that corporations then pass off as the result of advanced AI.
For more information on how AI is a scam, check this episode of "Tech Won't Save Us", The Poorly Paid Workers Powering Automation with Phil Jones
Yeah I know the reference because in german it became a verb. "Turking" something is creating a fake/counterfeit version of something else. So seeing it here I thought this was the english equivalent of that and jumped the gun.
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