  General-purpose crowdsourcing platforms are increasingly being harnessed for
creative work. The platforms' potential for creative work is clearly
identified, but the workers' perspectives on such work have not been
extensively documented. In this paper, we uncover what the workers have to say
about creative work on paid crowdsourcing platforms. Through a quantitative and
qualitative analysis of a questionnaire launched on two different crowdsourcing
platforms, our results revealed clear differences between the workers on the
platforms in both preferences and prior experience with creative work. We
identify common pitfalls with creative work on crowdsourcing platforms, provide
recommendations for requesters of creative work, and discuss the meaning of our
findings within the broader scope of creativity-oriented research. To the best
of our knowledge, we contribute the first extensive worker-oriented study of
creative work on paid crowdsourcing platforms.
