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Amazon to close Mechanical Turk marketplace after 21 years

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Amazon is shutting down Amazon Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourced marketplace for human intelligence tasks, on September 30th. The platform, which paid workers small sums for tasks that computers could not yet perform, has been in operation for 21 years. A recent study indicated that nearly half of the platform's workers were already utilizing AI to complete their assigned tasks. AI

IMPACT The closure of Amazon Mechanical Turk may impact the availability of human-labeled data for AI training, potentially increasing reliance on synthetic data or other labeling methods.

RANK_REASON Closure of a long-standing crowdsourcing platform.

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Amazon to close Mechanical Turk marketplace after 21 years

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    Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI "Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September, ending the 21-year-old marketplace that

    Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI "Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September, ending the 21-year-old marketplace that paid people cents a task to do what computers could not. A 2023 study found up to 46% of its workers were already using…

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