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Possibly Expensify? There was that news that came out a bit ago that their "SmartScan" actually fell back on Mechanical Turk [1] even though it was sold as a AI-type thing.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/expen...

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Yep

>“Most people’s first mistake is they go on there and accept any task they see,” says Naab. “They’ll do these transcriptions — $0.01 to transcribe a whole receipt for Expensify. That’s a terrible ROI.”

It's an investment because the more lucrative jobs require turks have hundreds or thousands of successfully completed tasks. So people will take one penny jobs simply to build credibility.

It depends, $0.01 might be worth something in a very poor country.

But on the other hand if you have access to a computer a poor country, 1 cent might not be worth your time anyway.

You can use MTurk on phones I assume? Even very poor people often have smartphones and data where I am living (Tanzania).

Perhaps they're transcripting some receipt to compare/check with the result of their AI-type system?

Or the AI system automatically boots it to Mturk when the photo quality is bad for example.

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