Amazon Is Shutting Down Mechanical Turk After More than 20 Years

Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after more than 20 years

After being in the crowdsourcing market for more than two decades, Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) will permanently shut down on September 30, 2026. Amazon said it regularly evaluates its tools, programs, and services, and MTurk is clearly being left behind as other ventures have emerged as AI-focused training initiatives.Read Entire Article

Amazon to close Mechanical Turk amid rise of AI

The company will shut down Mechanical Turk, a platform commonly used by gig workers, on Sept. 30.

Amazon is shutting down a go-to option for gig workers. It's the latest casualty of AI growth.

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Amazon shutting down Mechanical Turk

Annie Palmer for CNBC: “We regularly evaluate our programs, tools and services and make adjustments based on those assessments,” a notice posted to the Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, website said. “Following an assessment, we’ve made the decision to close AWS Mechanical Turk, effective September 30, 2026.” Launched in 2005, Mechanical Turk matches legions of workers with simple digital jobs, or “Human Intelligence Tasks,” that typically pay out a fe…

Amazon shuts Mechanical Turk and bets AI no longer needs humans to train it

Amazon‘s Mechanical Turk is shutting down. For 21 years it ran one of the largest human-powered computing systems ever assembled — a marketplace where tasks too difficult for machines were broken into small, repetitive pieces and handed to workers who completed them for payments that could fall below a dollar an hour. That system has become unnecessary. Amazon is exiting it entirely. The platform launched when Jeff Bezos coined the term ‘artific…