Amazon is shutting down its Mechanical Turk platform by September 30, impacting gig workers as AI increasingly handles simple tasks.

After operating for about 20 years, Amazon Mechanical Turk is shutting down.

Amazon has announced that it will shut down its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform on September 30, 2026, after two ...

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web ...

Learn more Amazon announced Tuesday it will shut down its Mechanical Turk crowdsourced labor platform on September 30, 2026. The company said it made the decision following an internal assessment of ...

An Amazon diagram about the Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform. Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments accounts ...

AWS will shut down Amazon Mechanical Turk on Sept. 30, ending a 21-year platform that supplied human data and labor for research and AI projects.

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 ...

For the past week, psychologists all over America have been freaking out. The cause of their agita was an observation by a psychology graduate student from the University of Minnesota named Max Hui ...