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2+ week, 3+ day ago   (390+ words) Amazon has posted a closure notice on the official Mechanical Turk site confirming that its crowdsourcing marketplace will permanently close on September 30, 2026. The decision ends the service that matched businesses and developers with a distributed human workforce for small digital…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (492+ words) Mechanical gears. Image by MustangJoe from Pixabay Nonetheless, the platform attracted hundreds of thousands of workers, many of whom, like me, relied on AMT as a full-time job. I’ve spoken at length in many venues about how I found myself…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (433+ words) After 21 years, it's time for Mechanical Turk to go Amazon plans to permanently close Mechanical Turk, its long-running platform for outsourcing small tasks to human workers. Launched in 2005, the platform enabled companies to hire people to complete small, routine tasks…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (289+ words) After 21 years and 500,000 workers, Amazon’s crowdsourced labeling marketplace closes September 30 as AI undercuts its own foundation At its peak, MTurk connected over 500,000 registered workers across 190 countries with companies that needed human judgment packaged as an API call. Credit where it’s…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (771+ words) Amazon Mechanical Turk will shut down Sept. 30, 2026, ending the 21-year crowdsourcing platform that connected businesses and researchers with human workers for data and AI-related tasks. Image: Daniel Mainye/Unsplash AWS will shut down Amazon Mechanical Turk on Sept. 30, ending a…...

3+ week, 6+ day ago   (659+ words) Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourced work platform, on September 30, 2026, after 21 years of operation. The service, launched in 2005, connected businesses with human workers who completed small digital tasks such as data labeling, transcription, and surveys for small per-task…...

4+ week, 11+ hour ago   (334+ words) Amazon is shutting down crowdsourced work platform Mechanical Turk, it said on Tuesday. Mechanical Turk became a favorite with gig workers who completed tasks to earn money. The platform increasingly struggled as AI use grew, though. Amazon is closing a…...

4+ week, 10+ hour ago   (195+ words) Amazon.com Inc. (AMZN, Financials) is shutting down a service that used to be a creative workaround to the limitations of artificial intelligence. Mechanical Turk, which was founded in 2005, will shut down after 21 years on September 30. The website connects people…...

4+ week, 11+ hour ago   (176+ words) Amazon's online marketplace for tiny digital tasks is being sunsetted. The company says its Mechanical Turk service, launched in 2005 to connect businesses with people willing... Amazon Putting End to Service It Has Offered for 21 Years Amazon's online marketplace for tiny…...

4+ week, 12+ hour ago   (422+ words) After 21 years, Amazon is shutting down its crowdsourced work platform Mechanical Turk. “We regularly evaluate our programs, tools and services and make adjustments based on those assessments,” the tech giant wrote Tuesday (Aug. 25) in a notice posted to the Mechanical…...