Amazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting down

Amazon will shut down Mechanical Turk, its 21-year-old crowdsourcing platform, on September 30, 2026. Launched in 2005 to handle tasks easy for humans but difficult for computers, Mechanical Turk once served hundreds of thousands of workers seeking flexible digital work. The platform has declined as advanced AI technologies have improved and new competitors have emerged.

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