What do you think of Humanoid, the world's 'first human brainpower API'?

Humanoid calls itself the "first human brainpower API". What they really mean by that is that they've built a system and API that tries to automate the management of using 'labor in the cloud' services.

The full write up is on their blog: http://tumblr.gethumanoid.com/ but here's more on how it works:

In the past, if an engineer wanted to integrate human labor into an app––to transcribe handwriting in a photo, for example––the developer would not only have to hire human workers, but also hire human managers to ensure quality. It was time consuming, expensive, and hard to do. As a result, few developers tried, and the ones that did found scaling impossible.

“Through software, we’re replicating what good bosses have done since the beginning of time,” says Matt Mireles, Humanoid’s co-founder and CEO. “We look at each person’s track record and we ask the question: ‘How well do I know this worker? Should I trust him, or do I need to verify the work?’ Newbies get more scrutiny; people with a strong track record get less––bad people get blocked."

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Whether this layer of automated task and quality management works will be interesting to see, but the SpeakerText guys have been apparently using the system for their own audio transcription service for months.

So...techhnologists: Would you use this? How would you use it? What are some examples?