So i used to dabble in doing jobs for Amazon’s Mturk work system to try and make some extra money. I’m not gonna go into the details of what that is or how it works here, but we would get a lot of little jobs that could be “write out closed captions for these short videos”, OR “select any squares of this image that meet the request”, like on this post. We’d be allowed to not select any squares if that was the case. They always looked like screen shots form google earth or something. A lot of times, like here, the solution was not in the provided image. I always felt like us Mturk human workers were providing the solutions to these “anti bot” measures.
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JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
I wonder how they pick these pictures. They must have some sort of program that picks pictures from street view including the thing they’re looking for. I can’t imagine they’re doing it all manually
tenacious_mucus@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Fucku@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Definitely not manually. It learns from us how to identify objects. By clicking these blocks, you’re training it.
Godnroc@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Step 1: collect pictures that may contain objects you want to identify Step 2: add some manually identified control pictures Step 3: ask users to identify the object in a sample of the potential pictures using the control pictures for verification