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Amazon is killing Mechanical Turk. By the end, a third of the humans on it were secretly using AI to do the work

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Amazon announced this week that Mechanical Turk closes on September 30 after 21 years. Bezos originally called it "artificial artificial intelligence". the joke being that it handed humans the tasks computers couldn't do yet. 500 000 people at peak, a few cents a task, labelling images and transcri…

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  1. 2026-08-30 20:36 · r/artificial
    Amazon is killing Mechanical Turk. By the end, a third of the humans on it were secretly using AI to do the work

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