My job was to rate it on a scale of 1 to 5 for 23 different qualities: "patriotic," "elitist," "reassuring" and so on.
Most tasks pay a dime or less, and there is a daily churn of tasks that pay only a penny.
Throughout this story we'll give you the chance to do HITs (Human Intelligence Tasks) that The Times has devised based on ones that novice workers like me encounter on Mechanical Turk. Click Accept & Work on any of the tasks below to get started.
It has ignored turkers' pleas to mandate higher wages, even as it takes a cut of each transaction ranging from 17 to 50 percent; a requester posting a 1-cent HIT pays one penny to the turker and another to Amazon.
Crowdwork's proponents see a gleaming future - a borderless, no-overhead labor market where task-creator and task-doer meet at the intersection of supply and demand. Its critics see a throwback to something more Dickensian, where the lack of regulation and accountability keeps workers in the dark and on the defensive.
Mechanical Turk was created to solve an in-house problem. In 2001, looking for help weeding out duplicate product listings, Amazon applied for a patent for "a hybrid machine/human computing arrangement which advantageously involves humans to assist a computer to solve particular tasks."
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"You have to digest the content of the image in order to come up with the keywords," she wrote in an email. "Things like 'orange jumpsuit,' 'caged prisoner,' 'prisoner on fire,' 'kneeling on explosives,' 'basket full of heads.'"
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