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Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI

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Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September. The marketplace is 21 years old, and it paid people a few cents at a time to do work that computers could not. Jeff Bezos once called it “artificial artificial intelligence”. A banner across the MTurk homepage sets out the decision. “We regularly e…

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  1. 2026-08-26 14:35 · The Next Web
    Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI

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