erin sparling
erin sparling
@everyplace.bsky.social
Please just follow me @[email protected]. I’m here mostly to bridge accounts back to there, because you can’t be in two places at once…
Tagging @greatdismal.bsky.social with my proposed definition of Reverse Mechanical Turk: when AI agents create incentivized tasks for humans to complete. If you zoom out far enough, this is basically the plot of Neuromancer, right?

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erin sparling (@[email protected])
I want to call this a “reverse Mechanical Turk” but that isn’t really accurate… but it does get the idea across? Both are still “a human does a task that is hard for a computer,” but in a this case it...
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February 4, 2026 at 7:47 PM