AWS is shutting down Mechanical Turk, which let humans beat AI at certain work tasks
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Mechanical Turk’s 2026 shutdown ends a 21-year experiment in on-demand micro-labor just as AI is absorbing many of those tasks. If you still rely on MTurk-style workflows — for labeling, moderation, or data collection — you need a migration plan that blends alternative labor pools with model-based automation.
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