Amazon shuts down Mechanical Turk, its pioneering crowdsourcing platform

AWS is discontinuing Mechanical Turk, its crowdsourcing service launched in 2005, by blocking new customers from July 2026

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The platform, dubbed 'artificial artificial intelligence', enabled outsourcing micro-tasks to human workers

Existing users will retain access, but no new registrations will be allowed

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