Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourced work platform, on 30 September, 2026. Launched in 2005, the service connected workers with tasks such as data labelling and surveys, but faced declining investment, growing competition, and questions over data quality.
Ironically, according to the article, the underpaid workers had actually started using it. Seems like Amazon got a taste of the future they advertised, and decided they didn’t want it themselves.
Too bad LLM “AI” can’t pick up the slack which is the whole reason it was still around and so active.
Ironically, according to the article, the underpaid workers had actually started using it. Seems like Amazon got a taste of the future they advertised, and decided they didn’t want it themselves.
Yeah, gotta keep your employees poor so they can’t afford to leave no matter how badly they’re treated.