Amazon to shut down Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform

Amazon will shut down Mechanical Turk, the crowdsourcing platform Bezos once called "artificial artificial intelligence," on September 30, 2026. Research showed up to 46% of its tasks were already completed by AI rather than humans, marking the end of the crowdsourcing era.

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