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Amazon Shuts Mechanical Turk to New Customers as Crowdsourcing Fades
Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk, its pioneering crowdsourcing platform. Existing workers report AWS is closing accounts, signaling the end of the service. The move comes as AI automation reduces demand for human micro-task labor.
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The shutdown underscores how AI has quietly replaced the very human workforce Mechanical Turk once symbolized, though Amazon's timing may also reflect cost-cutting priorities.
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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it →
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