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            2 The Modern Mechanical Turk
            3 .2C 34v
            4 .
            5 .PP
            6 In 1770, long before the exploitation of electricity, a machine was built in the pretention of being able to play Chess.
            7 This machine named Mechanical Turk was nothing more than a moving puppet actuated by a small human, such as a child.
            8 A child who is good at chess, that is!
            9 .
           10 .PP
           11 Actuating levers, the operator would make the puppet move, fooling the audience that technical advances occasionally make use of black magic.
           12 .
           13 .PP
           14 Amazon called a software platform Amazon Mechanical Turk.
           15 .FS
           16 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk
           17 .FE
           18 It offers management for harvesting food for machine learning: human description of images, videos, products, and other kind of canned thoughts that machine learning can make use of to build models.
           19 .
           20 .PP
           21 Uber for Cyber.
           22 Human translators shouting at machines the language they got whispered through their life.
           23 .
           24 .IP "Ghostworker. Noun."
           25 1. Worker performing activity that will only be appreciated as data feeding an algorhithm.
           26 2. Worker with no access to who it provide work to, both employer and client are invisible to him.
           27 .FS
           28 https://www.ghostwork.org/
           29 .FE
           30 .
           31 .PP
           32 given the very large scale at which these data-harvesting structures are deployed, it means that you, web user, have experienced the Google and Cloudflare "captcha" block window.
           33 That window preventing you to submit a form unless you click on all buses, tracktors, crosswalks, traffic lights... to verify that you are indeed a human and not a bot trying to access the website.
           34 Instead of prooving its belonging to the mankind, at the opposite, the user is explaining to machines what is a bus, a tracktor, a crosswalk, or a traffic light.
           35 .
           36 .PP
           37 Here is your Great Technological Singularity for the greatest common entertainment:
           38 Nothing more than a moving puppet, actuated by humans, barely even paid for it, if paid at all...
           39 .FS
           40 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
           41 .FE