ChatGPT Is Reshaping Crowd Work
While some workers may shun AI, the temptation to use it is very real for others. The field can be “dog-eat-dog,” Bob says, making labor-saving tools attractive. To find the best-paying…
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Elon Musk Embraces Twitter’s Radical Fact-Checking Experiment
Unlike Polis, Twitter’s project has to find consensus not for one question at a time but for any conceivable controversy on the platform. Community Notes does that by estimating the…
A Crowdsourced Wildfire App Tracks All of California’s Blazes
The app launched in August 2021, at the height of the 2021 fire season, which in California typically falls between June and October. At launch, the app covered only California’s Sonoma…
‘Guerrilla’ sales, crowdsourcing: Japan’s game console crunch
The PlayStation console has been hard to buy since its November 2020 release, with supply chain issues exacerbated by…
Creativity as survival: Crowdsourcing unexpected ways we use technology
Safwan Harb made an electric wheelchair-bike from spare parts in the Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. Credit: North…
New research sheds light on how to make the most of crowdsourcing campaigns
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In recent years, crowdsourcing, which involves recruiting members…
Shanghai Uses Crowdsourcing to Survive Covid-19 Lockdown as Social Support Breaks Down
Daily life in Shanghai has ground to a halt as parts of the city’s social services collapsed under the weight of a strict citywide Covid-19 lockdown that is stretching into a second…
Crowdsourcing cybersoldiers: why Russia’s war in Ukraine marks a turning point for cyberconflicts
A message related to the Petya ransomware projected on a young man; on 27 June 2017 a variant of the Petya ransomware virus hit computers of companies in Russia, Ukraine, and other countries…
Can the Wisdom of Crowds Help Fix Social Media’s Trust Issue?
The study found that with a group of just eight laypeople, there was no statistically significant difference between the crowd performance and a given fact checker. Once the groups got up to…
Be careful when crowdsourcing data: The crowd could give you something you don’t want
Crowdsourcing is a great concept in theory, but it doesn't always work out in practice. Just ask the namers of Boaty McBoatface.…