Amazon's Mechanical Turk permanently shuts down as AI takes over
nptacek · x · 2026-09-30
Amazon's crowdsourcing platform Mechanical Turk has permanently closed, per Roko Mijic, with the blunt verdict that "AI is just way better and cheaper."
Once the emblematic platform for crowdsourced labeling and microtasks, its shutdown is being read as an era-defining marker of AI displacing human microtask labor.
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