# Centralized platforms `kaal:entity:centralized-platforms` **Status.** derived This node is assembled mechanically from the 13 claims that carry the concept tag `centralized-platforms`. It is a roster of what the corpus says under this term. It is **not** an adjudicated definition: no single statement here has been ruled canonical, and no first-appearance call has been made. Read the claims and judge for yourself. ## Every claim under this term 13 claims across 3 works, 2018 to 2024. **2018** - [3128900-005](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-005) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Existing centralized micro task marketplaces cannot adequately meet the rising demand for high quality labelled AI training data. > The existing centralized marketplaces for micro task work cannot adequately fulfil the increasing demand for high quality micro task work for AI labelled training datasets. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900 - [3128900-006](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-006) [failure/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- The cost structure of centralized micro task systems, which require intermediation, produces significant overpricing that does not benefit the workers themselves. > First and foremost, the cost structure for micro task work in centralized systems that necessitate intermediation results in significant overpricing without benefiting the micro task workers directly. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900 - [3128900-008](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-008) [empirical/evidenced] -- To offset human limitations, requesters in centralized micro task structures assign the same task to teams of up to fifteen workers to form a consensus. > In an attempt to ensure quality of results and minimize the impact of the human limitations of their workers, requesters in centralized micro task structures set up teams of up to 15 workers to perform the same task in an effort to form a consensus. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900 - [3128900-011](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-011) [empirical/evidenced] -- Roughly 38 percent of the labor pool is unbanked but skilled, and this group has no access to centralized micro task marketplaces. > Most importantly, the circa 38% of the labor pool that is unbanked but skilled does not currently have access to the centralized micro task marketplaces. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900 - [3128900-012](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-012) [condition/argued] *(failure mode)* -- A bank account is a necessary condition for participation in the existing centralized micro task marketplace: without one, a worker can neither contribute nor profit. > Without a bank account, workers cannot contribute and profit from the existing centralized micro task marketplace. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900 - [3128900-013](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-013) [failure/evidenced] *(failure mode)* -- Signup and approval processes in centralized micro task systems are invasive, privacy challenging, time consuming, and unclear, and they function as market entry barriers for micro task workers. > Finally, micro workers in centralized systems are faced with invasive, privacy challenging, time consuming, and unclear signup and approval processes that create market entry barriers for micro task workers. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900 - [3128900-035](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-035) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Centralized mechanical turk marketplace leaders operate as rent seeking intermediaries that generate numerous inefficiencies in the market and deprive freelance workers of a share in the profits the platforms capture. > Similarly, centralized mechanical turk marketplace leaders act as rent seeking intermediaries that create numerous inefficiencies in the market. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900 - [3128900-036](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-036) [empirical/evidenced] -- Centralized industry leaders in the freelancer market, including Upwork, Amazon, and Fiverr, charge up to 40 percent in transaction fees. > Centralized industry leaders in the freelancer market, including Upwork, Amazon, and Fiverr charge up to 40% in transaction fees. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900 - [3128900-038](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-038) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Centralized platform fees charged to requesters for the right to submit tasks exert downward pressure on worker compensation, so the fee structure itself is what depresses pay. > Such centralized fees add downward pressure on the platforms' worker compensation. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900 - [3128900-042](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-042) [mechanism/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Poor user interface quality on centralized micro task platforms increases both the time workers need per task and their error rate, and both effects lower worker earning ability. > The lacking quality in mechanical turk user interfaces also significantly increases the time for workers to perform tasks and increases the error rate in performing tasks both of which significantly lower worker earning ability on such platforms. Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900 **2021** - [3782214-025](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-025) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- No centralized platform such as Amazon or eBay has been able to create meaningful and secure online reputation, because central ownership and control prevent them from giving members the power and incentives needed to police their own reputation. > No centralized platform, such as Amazon or eBay, has been able to create mean- ingful and secure online reputation. Because they are centrally owned and controlled they cannot give members the power and incentives they need to police their own reputation, Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214 - [3782214-039](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3782214-039) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Because major social media platforms are privately and centrally owned, their governance processes and reputation distribution algorithms are necessarily opaque, since their users' incentives are not aligned to police reputation against gaming. > Since Stack Overflow and Reddit and Facebook and Twitter and all the other successful social media sites are privately, centrally owned, their governance processes—their algorithms for distributing reputation—are necessarily opaque. Craig Calcaterra, Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Governance (2021). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3782214 **2024** - [4755632-009](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-009) [failure/argued] *(failure mode)* -- Existing centralized micro task marketplaces cannot adequately fulfill the growing demand for high quality labeled AI training data, because their cost structure requires intermediation, which produces significant overpricing without any of that price reaching the micro task workers. > the cost structure for micro task work in centralized systems that necessitate intermediation results in significant overpricing without benefiting the micro task workers directly. Wulf A. Kaal, AI Learning - Decentralized Governance to Optimize Human Output Datasets for AI Learning (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4755632 ## Verify Every claim above resolves to a record carrying a verbatim source quote, the sha256 of the source PDF, and a preformatted citation. 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