Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI
THE SO WHAT
The shutdown of a 21-year-old human-in-the-loop marketplace is a marker that many of those microtasks have either been automated or structurally repriced. If your ops still lean on MTurk-style labor, you need a continuity plan — either alternative vendors or a path to model-based automation — before September.
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