Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
THE SO WHAT
One of the original human-in-the-loop marketplaces is effectively winding down just as synthetic data and agentic workflows are ramping up—manual labeling and microtasks are getting structurally repriced. If you still depend on MTurk, you need a contingency plan this quarter for data ops and eval workflows that assumes constrained human crowd capacity and more automation.
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