# Worker protection

`kaal:entity:worker-protection`

**Status.** derived

This node is assembled mechanically from the 2 claims that carry the concept tag `worker-protection`. 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

2 claims across 2 works, 2018 to 2024.

**2018**

- [3128900-028](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/3128900-028) [design/asserted] -- The reputation score mechanism serves a discriminating function, separating malicious actors from simple mistakes and protecting workers and verifiers against fraudulent requesters and badly designed requests.
  > The reputation score mechanism helps discern malicious actors and simple mistakes. It also protects workers and verifiers from fraudulent requesters and suboptimally designed requests.
  Wulf A. Kaal, Decentralized Mechanical Turk Through Verified Reputation (2018). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3128900

**2024**

- [4755632-037](https://wulfkaal.github.io/claims/4755632-037) [mechanism/asserted] -- The reputation score mechanism helps discern malicious actors from simple mistakes and protects workers and verifiers from fraudulent requesters and suboptimally designed requests, so reputation serves as a bidirectional screening device rather than only a worker rating.
  > The reputation score mechanism helps discern malicious actors and simple mistakes. It also protects workers and verifiers from fraudulent requesters and suboptimally designed requests.
  Wulf A. Kaal, AI Learning - Decentralized Governance to Optimize Human Output Datasets for AI Learning (2024). SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=4755632

## Verify

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    curl -s https://wulfkaal.github.io/entities/worker-protection.md | sha256sum

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