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Ok, but Amazon also checks for turk performance, e.g. to keep out bots, and people who just submit wrong answers to make a quick buck. It doesn't seem trivial to build upon that by returning a code.

(A related question: would it be possible to use Amazon Turk to train an algorithm that answers Amazon Turk questions?)

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You would still use mTurk to recruit participants, so you still benefit from their filters for acceptance rate etc. You would just implement the survey (probably with some attention checks to weed out people who just randomly answer questions), and at survey completion you give them a code to submit to complete the mTurk hit.

Then you would only accept the submissions that have passed the attention checks, and pay those mTurkers.

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