Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September, ending the 21-year-old marketplace that paid people cents a task to do what computers could not. A 2023 study found up to 46% of its workers were ...

Amazon confirmed Tuesday that Mechanical Turk will permanently close on September 30, 2026 — giving existing requesters and workers thirty-five days to migrate workflows, verify payment settings, and ...

Launched in 2005 as a platform where human workers could perform quick digital chores that early software couldn't handle, ...

Amazon has announced that it will shut down its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform on September 30, 2026, after two ...

Tech giant Amazon is now shutting down its more than two-decade-old crowdsourced work platform, Mechanical Turk, the company said on Tuesday. The crowdsourced work platform will shut down on 30 ...

Amazon's longtime human workforce platform is disappearing as newer AI companies recruit workers for increasingly complex training tasks ...

Mechanical Turk, Amazon’s (AMZN) 21-year-old crowdsourced labor marketplace, is being phased out, according to a company announcement on Tuesday. “We regularly evaluate our programs, tools and ...

Web Services confirmed this week that Mechanical Turk — the crowdsourcing marketplace that built the modern AI training industry by hiding human labor behind the curtain of products marketed as ...

AWS will shut down Amazon Mechanical Turk on Sept. 30, ending a 21-year platform that supplied human data and labor for research and AI projects. Amazon Mechanical Turk will shut down Sept. 30, 2026, ...

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web ...