Amazon Shutters Mechanical Turk as AI Quietly Took Over Tasks

Amazon will shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30 after 21 years. A 2023 Swiss study found 46% of MTurk workers already used AI to complete tasks, highlighting how generative AI undermined the crowdsourcing platform.

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