Hi,
I recently used the AWS Mechanical Turk system, specifically 'Ground Truth'. Where, for a fee you send in a bunch of images (~500 in this case). People will then label the data by drawing boxes over the objects of interest that you specify.
Now it should've cost $100~$150 based on their estimates, however when i received a ~$610 bill i was shocked. After contacting them they told me that I had selected that for each image 5 different workers would make an attempt (which i didn't). Turns out, that in the job config, under a drop down menu that ONLY CONTAINS "number of workers" it defaults to 5 (not 1). For all intents and purposes this is hidden, given that it's titled "Additional config".
Anyway I'm having a dispute with them about it, and want to know the law here, cause this is so freaking dodgy. I mean Amazon is the king of dodgy tactics, but surely this is illegal in Australia with our consumer protection laws?
Cheers.
I recently used the AWS Mechanical Turk system, specifically 'Ground Truth'. Where, for a fee you send in a bunch of images (~500 in this case). People will then label the data by drawing boxes over the objects of interest that you specify.
Now it should've cost $100~$150 based on their estimates, however when i received a ~$610 bill i was shocked. After contacting them they told me that I had selected that for each image 5 different workers would make an attempt (which i didn't). Turns out, that in the job config, under a drop down menu that ONLY CONTAINS "number of workers" it defaults to 5 (not 1). For all intents and purposes this is hidden, given that it's titled "Additional config".
Anyway I'm having a dispute with them about it, and want to know the law here, cause this is so freaking dodgy. I mean Amazon is the king of dodgy tactics, but surely this is illegal in Australia with our consumer protection laws?
Cheers.