Amazon Mechanical Turk Shuts Down After 17 Years

Amazon has permanently shut down Mechanical Turk after 17 years, with its API returning 410 Gone. The closure, attributed to AI being 'better and cheaper,' marks a milestone in AI displacing human crowdsourcing work.

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