30 Internet purchased photos
2015
I posted a HIT (Human Intelligence Tasks) on the Amazon Mechanical Turk* on March 19, 2015, titled Can you “tear” for me? and asked the online workers to upload pictures of themselves tearing for a stipend of 0.25D.
Here is my post:
Hi, I had a bad day and I want to collect photos of people “tearing” for me.
Can you submit a photo\selfie of you “tearing”?
You don’t have to show your whole face in the picture and you don’t have to cry.
Please make sure it is the picture of yourself not from the Internet.
30 photos have been collected on the date of May 19th.
The Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing Internet marketplace that enables individuals and businesses (known as Requesters) to coordinate the use of human intelligence to perform tasks that computers are currently unable to do. One can create a HIT (Human Intelligence Tasks) and ask workers to complete the tasks for a monetary payment.
这是一个虚拟世界的请求。在Amazon Mechanical Turk的平台上,我发布了《可以为我“落泪”吗?》的任务,请线上劳务为我拍摄一张自己哭泣的照片并获得0.25美元的酬劳。
任务中文译文:
你好,我今天过得很不好所以我希望能够收集一些人为我“难过落泪”。可以发给我一张你“落泪”的照片或者自拍吗? 你不需要拍全脸,你也不用真的哭出来。请确认这是你照片,而不是下载的图片。
两个月后,她收到了来自世界各地的三十张“落泪”的照片。他们的身份,故事,落泪的原因,甚至那眼边的液体是泪水还是水都无法确认,留下的只有一串work ID和回应时间。