AWS says Mechanical Turk will no longer accept new customers and that it is placing the crowdsourcing service in maintenance, signaling its future retirement
THE SO WHAT
One of the original human-in-the-loop backends for ML and data work is effectively being sunset—assume long-term fragility for any workflow still dependent on Mechanical Turk. If you're using MTurk for labeling, evals, or RLHF-style tasks, treat this as a forced migration trigger and start qualifying alternative labor platforms or in-house pools this quarter.
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