AWS is shutting down Mechanical Turk, which let humans beat AI at certain work tasks

Amazon will permanently close Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026Mechanical Turk once connected more than 500,000 workers with paid tasksWorkers completed image tagging, transcription, surveys, and other routine assignmentsAmazon plans to permanently close Mechanical Turk, its long-running platform for outsourcing small tasks to human...