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AWS is shutting down Mechanical Turk, which let humans beat AI at certain work tasks

Amazon.
  • Amazon will permanently close Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026
  • Mechanical Turk once connected more than 500,000 workers with paid tasks
  • Workers completed image tagging, transcription, surveys, and other routine assignments

Amazon plans to permanently close Mechanical Turk, its long-running platform for outsourcing small tasks to human workers.

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