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clickwork

clickwork noun: repetitive and unskilled digital labour.

Noun

clickwork (uncountable)

  1. Repetitive and unskilled digital labour.
    • But in a high-wage economy like Finland, finding those data laborers was difficult. The Finnish welfare system's generous unemployment benefits leaves little incentive for Finns to sign up to low-wage clickwork platforms like Amazon's Mechanical Turk.2023 September 11, Morgan Meaker, “These Prisoners Are Training AI”, in Wired, San Francisco, Calif.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 06 Feb 2024
    • 'Clickwork' runs like clockwork as prisoners train AI systems2023 September 14, Emma Yeomans, “(article title)”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Sep 2023

Origin of clickwork

From click + -work.

Words formed from clickwork

Questions about clickwork

What does clickwork mean?
Clickwork means repetitive and unskilled digital labour.
What part of speech is clickwork?
Clickwork is a noun.

Words near clickwork in the dictionary

  1. clickthru
  2. clickthrus
  3. clicktivism
  4. clicktivist
  5. clicktivists
  6. clickwork
  7. clickworker
  8. clickworkers
  9. clickworthy
  10. clickwrap
  11. clickwrap license

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