Is Crowdsourcing a Form of Exploitation?

This very short SXSW 2011 video clip considers that crowdsourcing may both exploit the contributors by giving so little in exchange for a significant collective input and it may also encourage people to be inattentive to their work because the odds of it being accepted are so low.

It is important to look at these various angles in considering both the pros and the cons of crowdsourcing. Some of the writing and commentating today is much more prone to see it as a nearly unbridled source of good.