https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/14/mechanical-turk-workers-are-using-ai-to-automate-being-human/ > File this one under inevitable, but hilarious. Mechanical Turk is a service that from its earliest days seemed to invite shenanigans, and indeed researchers show that nearly half of its “turkers” appear to be using AI to do tasks that were specifically intended to be done by humans because AI couldn’t. We’ve closed the loop on this one, great job everybody! > Amazon’s Mechanical Turk let users divide simple tasks into any number of small sub-tasks that take only a few seconds to do, and which pay pennies — but dedicated piecemeal workers would perform thousands and thereby earn a modest but reliable wage. It was, as Jeff Bezos memorably put it back then, “artificial artificial intelligence.”