Amazon’s ‘Artificial Artificial Intelligence’ Is Being Eaten by AI
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Mechanical Turk-style human-in-the-loop is getting squeezed as LLMs take over the low-complexity tasks that once justified the marketplace. If your ops still lean on large pools of microwork, start mapping which workflows can be fronted by models with humans as auditors, not primary labor.
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