Amazon to Shut Down Mechanical Turk as Crowdsourcing Era Ends

Amazon will shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30. Research shows 46% of tasks on the platform were already completed by AI rather than humans, marking the end of an era for the crowdsourcing market that once powered early AI data labeling.

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