LLMs Are Driving Amazon MTurk Into Decline
emollick · x · 2026-07-07
Ethan Mollick notes that Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk)—once a primary tool in the 2010s for quickly gathering large numbers of "representative human" respondents for social science research—is exiting the stage. While it performed well originally, the rise of LLMs has led researchers to switch to AI, causing MTurk's usage to plummet.
More from AGI Musings
- Instinct launches agent-to-agent protocol to coordinate your plans, sparking 'friction is the point' backlash — itsOmSarraf_ · 2026-09-11
- We are witnessing the unreasonable effectiveness of inference-time scaling — sqcai · 2026-09-11
- Accelerationist fires back at AI doomers: beliefs aren't arguments — Dan_Jeffries1 · 2026-09-11
- "ChatGPT 6 Makes Workers with IQ Below 130 Useless": French AI Debate Sparks Backlash — mitchdeg · 2026-09-11
- 'AGI is here' vs reality: AI labs still ship some of the jankiest desktop apps ever — MilesCranmer · 2026-09-11
- Harry Collins: LLMs can't do frontier science because they can't invent new language — whoamisri · 2026-09-11