Amazon shuts down Mechanical Turk: Why Jeff Bezos once called it ‘artificial artificial intelligence’ | Company Business News
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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.
  • Jul@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    2 days ago

    Too bad LLM “AI” can’t pick up the slack which is the whole reason it was still around and so active.

    • XLE@piefed.socialEnglish
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      2 days ago

      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.

      • Jul@piefed.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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        2 days ago

        Yeah, gotta keep your employees poor so they can’t afford to leave no matter how badly they’re treated.