Mastodawn

Hey swarm intelligence, I need your help! For an explainer video series for @WikimediaCH , I'm looking for an NPO or otherwise intimate knowledgeable entity around the subject of #clickwork, #datawork and #mechanicalturks that we could interview. Any hints or recommendations? Thank you!!

teledyn 𓂀 Jan 24, 2024

"Most people who watch these videos without poking around in the descriptions or comments will likely not assume that these robots were being entirely controlled by experienced humans, because why would they?"

https://spectrum.ieee.org/robot-teleoperation-autonomy

#mechanicalturks #telepresence #telerobotics

(fwiw teledyn was originally Teledynamics Telerobotics and Control Systems doing 3D #telepresence and #augmentedreality for which there was little interest or funding in 1991, but SGI gear was fun 😅)

That Awesome Robot Demo Could Have a Human in the Loop

How to tell whether a robot is really autonomous, or whether it's being teleoperated.

IEEE Spectrum

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Cory Doctorow Feb 24, 2023

It's the ultimate #PassiveIncome #RiseAndGrind #SideHustle: It wouldn't surprised me in the least to discover a whole festering nest of creeps on Tiktok talking about how they pay #MechanicalTurks to produce these lookalike sites at scale.

This mindset is so pervasive that people running companies with billions in revenue and massive hoards of venture capital run *exactly* the same scam.

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