Tagcow magic?

Wow! Tagcow, automatically, intelligently, tags your photos from flickr, apparently. If you upload pics of friends it even identifies them! But how?

Using mechanical turk, that's how. Amazon's mturk is billed as "artificial artificial intelligence", and it's obviously people doing the tagging. I had a go at both, tagging was easy but to earn anything close to decent money you have to do it faster than is possible. I tried to do it minimally but honestly but it was too slow.

Check out the results from some other taggers, they're useful but at best minimal...