Talk by Neha Gupta

Neha Gupta will give a short talk to the lab.

This talk is based on Neha’s PhD work on crowdsourcing and crowdwork. In this talk she discusses particular microtasks that test workers’ morality and resolve, in this case, porn filtering image-based tasks, and elaborates on the workers perspectives and attitudes towards them. These are tasks that cannot be fully automated, and thus cannot be performed by AI, leading to ‘human computation’, where humans work on these tasks, while staying behind-the-scenes, doing invisible work. The data raises some fundamental questions about the design of crowdsourcing platforms that host such tasks.