> In a snake-eating-its-own-tail irony, a 2023 analysis found that between 33% and 46% of workers on the platform were using large language models to complete their tasks,

I assume AI use by workers has risen to the point where it renders Mechanical Turk pointless.

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skt5 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

This likely means those consuming the outputs of Mechanical Turk don't have a good way to measure the value (aka quality) of the outputs.

If they did - then they shouldn't care whether it's a human or a LLM. And if it's a LLM - then the cost will roughly correlate to the MIN(cost of the LLM, cost of a human) to do the task.

	▲	AndrewOMartin 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I think the "state of the art" of measuring the quality of outputs was to send the same task to multiple "agents" and only accept answers if over a certain amount agree. With some human review and reputation scoring sprinkled on top. It was a while since I was in this field though

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moralestapia 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Yeah, I was doing this kind of Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence back in 2012 to make some extra $$$. Glad they finally "patched" that hole ^^.

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pc86 4 hours ago | parent [-]

You were using LLMs in 2012?

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subarctic 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Artificial AI = stuff like mechanical turk where they get humans to do stuff computers can't do and make it look like it's "AI"

Artificial Artificial Intelligence = using computers to do mechanical turk jobs

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moralestapia 2 hours ago | parent [-]

You wrote the same thing twice, hehe.

But the point gets across.

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icepush an hour ago | parent [-]

Artificial Artificial Artificial intelligence is when the chat bot is out of capacity, so a person in India is writing the response that gets returned by the LLM which gets pasted into Mechanical Turk.

	▲	moralestapia 16 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		"Artificial AI" and "Artificial Artificial intelligence" are the same thing. Come on. This site can do better.

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HPsquared 23 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Living, Low-income Minions?

	▲	moralestapia 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		This is my main argument as to why (people with) AI will not take over the world. Cheap, disposable, on-demand intelligence has existed for millennia. If anything, AI is more of an equalizer.

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simlevesque 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They were faking artificial intelligence by using real individuals.

	▲	HPsquared 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		That's just Artificial Artificial Intelligence, the triple negative implies they built an automated system to impersonate humans who impersonate an automated system (which ultimately imitates a human).

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pixel_popping 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Fiverr-5.5 was the leading model back then.

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moralestapia 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Not LLMs. (Useful) LLMs came to the market around 2022.

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6510 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

I don't see why I would care how they do the job. Just do the job, I have other things to do.