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Amazon to shut down Mechanical Turk by September 2026
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Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending the 21-year-old crowdsourced labor marketplace. Launched in 2005, MTurk paid workers pennies for microtasks like data labeling and transcription. Jeff Bezos once called it "artificial artificial intelligence." AI now handles many of those tasks.
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