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Lilly Irani, another doctoral candidate at UC Irvine, is concerned about a lack of workers' rights on Mechanical Turk. In one survey she conducted, more than half of the respondents complained of unfair rejection of work that resulted in no payout.

Irani and another UC Irvine student built software called Turkopticon, which aims to level the playing field between workers and requesters by providing better community feedback and information on requesters' reputations.