Mturk can be used as a source for automation training.
If you start writing bots to do the tasks, you're now the mostly-blind leading the blind.
If you start writing bots to do the tasks, you're now the mostly-blind leading the blind.
Once the market gets flooded with bots, the buyers will work out what's going on and start to lower their offers to cover the risk of getting a bot transcription. Then the real humans leave.
And of course, if a task can be fully automated then amazon would prefer to integrate it into their cloud offering and take all of the profit themselves.
>And of course, if a task can be fully automated then amazon would prefer to integrate it into their cloud offering and take all of the profit themselves.
And that's what Amazon should do if they could.
You would also get people doing some work themselves to build reputation up and then swapping in a bot.
It would be quite interesting to build a dedicated market for bots. Just let people upload scripts with a documented input/output format and then pay the developer a royalty each time it is run.
The point of MT is that it's a market for jobs that cannot be easily automated. If someone can automate the task then so be it, it doesn't matter.
The point of MT is not a market place for "tasks that can only be done by humans", it's a market place for "tasks that can't be automated easily, therefore everyone and everything should have an opportunity to complete the task by any means what-so-ever. if you can only complete tasks on drugs then so be it. if you can only complete tasks by writing a bot so be it.". The seller just wants task to be completed cheaply.
Once that guarantee goes away you affect the value of all transactions within the market. What is commonly known as a "Lemon market effect".