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Amazon’s “Artificial AI” Service, Touted by Jeff Bezos, Shutting Down
Amazon is shutting down its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, Mechanical Turk (MTurk), on September 30, 2026. Launched in 2005 to handle micro-tasks, MTurk connected a global workforce to tasks like data labeling. The platform’s decline is attributed to advancements in AI and the rise of specialized data annotation startups, along with concerns about data integrity and worker migration to competing services.
