Submission + - Mechanical Turk: Now with 40.92% spam. (blogspot.com)
An anonymous reader writes: NYU study reveals that over 40% of the jobs posted by new employers on MTurk are some sort of spam request, such as fake account creation, fraudulent ad clicks, or fake comments, tweets, likes and votes. Study also shows that the bad jobs could be automatically filtered with 95% accuracy, but Amazon is not interested.
