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Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years, quietly ending the human-powered platform
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, after 21 years, ending one of the internet’s earliest marketplaces for invisible digital labor—as well as a platform that helped establish the human-data pipeline behind modern AI .
Thu, 27 Aug 2026 11:02:23 GMT
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