[skinnymuch]

I don’t think it is satire.

I find the comments that want to spin cogs into a good thing by changing the name and manipulating the imaging so lowly people don’t know how you they are really viewed, worse than any thing this app is doing, satire or not.

[TeMPOraL]

I also assumed it is satire.

I think a lot of devs eventually realize that the whole "gig economy", as it is, is essentially an API for humans.

I also agree that, on the off chance this isn't satire, its current, honest form is much better than the proposed "marketability improvements" would make it.

[skinnymuch]

I passed this off to my brother and two friends. All who I know have used mechanical Turks for their academic work. None of them brought up the name or any weirdness. Nothing to write home about. But another anecdote for me