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AWS Killed Mechanical Turk. The First Job Market AI Ate Is Dead

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Mechanical Turk is done. AWS shut it down. Sept 30, 2026. Twenty-one years after Jeff Bezos launched it and called it "artificial artificial intelligence." No new customers since July 30. Existing ones get five weeks to wrap up. An internal assessment made the call. No funeral, no fanfare, no migra…

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  1. 2026-08-27 07:03 · DEV Community — Machine Learning
    AWS Killed Mechanical Turk. The First Job Market AI Ate Is Dead

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