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Amazon to close Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform Sept. 30

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Amazon is shutting down its Mechanical Turk (MTurk) crowdsourcing platform on September 30th. The company has published an FAQ to address user concerns regarding the closure. MTurk has been a significant platform for data labeling and other micro-task work, often utilized in AI development. AI

IMPACT The closure of MTurk may impact the availability of human-annotated data for AI model training.

RANK_REASON Closure of a long-standing micro-task platform.

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Amazon to close Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform Sept. 30

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  1. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 中文(ZH) · [email protected] ·

    Amazon's MTurk is closing down? #ai #amazon #language #large #llm

    https:// blog.gslin.org/archives/2026/0 8/27/13165/amazon-%e7%9a%84-mturk-%e8%a6%81%e9%97%9c%e4%ba%86/ Amazon 的 MTurk 要關了 # ai # amazon # language # large # llm # mechanical # model # mturk # turk

    LINKS blog.gslin.org/…/amazon-%e7%9a%84-mturk-%… blog.gslin.org/…/0
  2. Mastodon — fosstodon.org TIER_1 English(EN) · [email protected] ·

    Update: # Amazon *is* going to close # mTurk (on Sept 30). A closure FAQ is prepended to the help page: https://www. mturk.com/help # gigWork # research # AI #

    Update: # Amazon *is* going to close # mTurk (on Sept 30). A closure FAQ is prepended to the help page: https://www. mturk.com/help # gigWork # research # AI # dataQuality

    LINKS mturk.com/help

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