Make money at home? Amazon Mechanical Turk is an online service involving human workers. The workers are at home and search for duplicate content. Each HIT, human intelligence task, is payed out in pocket change…micropayments. Amazon Mechanical Turk pays people to do simple tasks that are too complex for computer. Amazon Mechanical Turk began in 2005. Today there are more than one hundred thousand people working for Amazon Mechanical Turk.