The Gig Economy's Foundation: Earning Money with Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) The Gig Economy's Foundation: Earning Money with Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) "Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk)" is the original micro-tasking platform, offering a flexible "side hustle" for those looking for "legitimate online jobs from home". Success on MTurk is a game of volume and strategy, focused on identifying and completing "Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs)" efficiently to "maximize earnings micro-tasking online". "Amazon Mechanical Turk" is a crowdsourcing marketplace where individuals and businesses (Requesters) post small, repeatable tasks—known as "Human Intelligence Tasks (HITs)"—that computers currently cannot do well. Examples include identifying objects in images, transcribing audio clips, or answering survey questions. While the pay...