[reaperducer]

I didn't read it as being part of MTurk. "Mechanical turk" was a thing for hundreds of years before Amazon named it's service.

[tomnipotent]

> "Mechanical turk" was a thing for hundreds of years before Amazon named it's service.

In the context of crowdsourced labor, it absolutely implies Amazon.

[LocalH]

The title as presented on HN says "Mechanical Turk", not "mechanical turk".