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Amazon Mechanical Turk has an adult-content marker specifically for this purpose. Lots of people have done the paperwork to qualify for adult-content jobs and the cost of having humans do it at scale is very low: https://requester.mturk.com/help/faq#can_explicit_offensive

Source: I helped implement a MT job to filter adult content for a large hosting company.

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So i can literally get paid for looking at porn. Huh, who knew... :)

At the cost of your mental health, sure.

I recall reading an article about the human workers who had this job at Google... they had crap benefits, crap pay, and no mental healthcare. As a result a lot of the people in the field had depression and other mental issues.

Source?.... or any hints as to what the article was called. Sounds interesting.

Would it be this one? http://www.buzzfeed.com/reyhan/tech-confessional-the-googler...

And RSI as well I would imagine.

Friend was a contractor on the YouTube filter team -- they lasted about 9 months before it became too much and had to leave.

There was absolutely no reward in showing up to work, and some of the things they saw have likely scarred their memories forever

Challenge accepted!

I signed up as a worker on MT a few years ago just for kicks. Let's just say that labeling adult images got old real fast.

Only interesting tasks were the psychology ones, but they got boring too (think Daniel Kahnemans experiments repeated ad nauseum).

How people last on MT longer than a month is something that I

Isn't Obamacare supposed to cover mental health care? Seems like a solved problem.

Holy hell people, touchy aren't we.

This quora answer describes one such person in the industry watching porn all day and writing most enticing copy for it.

http://qr.ae/NSSa0

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