Amazon shuts down Mechanical Turk, once called 'artificial artificial intelligence'
ArtificialOther · x · 2026-08-27
Amazon is shutting down its crowdsourcing service, Amazon Mechanical Turk. Jeff Bezos once called it 'artificial artificial intelligence,' and the platform has long been seen as a key early form of AI training data annotation.
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