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Lest anyone think this is a new scam:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk
It's also worth noting that this is famous enough that Amazon has offered a service called Mechanical Turk since 2005.
The implementation and service are both fine in theory, but you do need to be clear that what's being paid for is humans pretending to be computers.