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Amazon has stopped accepting new Mechanical Turk customers, signaling that AI has replaced human micro-task workers at commercial scale. The platform that helped train modern AI no longer needs humans to do the job.
Amazon has closed Mechanical Turk to new requesters, ending an era of human-powered AI training data. The platform paid workers $2 per hour to build tools worth billions. Now those tools don't need them
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk to new customers. It's not just a product sunset. It's a signal that cheap human labor for AI training is being replaced, and the businesses that miss this shift