Amazon is closing a platform that became a staple for some gig workers. The company will shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, according to a message posted on the crowdsourced work platform's ...

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 confirmed Tuesday that Mechanical Turk will permanently close on September 30, 2026 — giving existing requesters and workers thirty-five days to migrate workflows, verify payment settings, and ...

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

Mechanical Turk launched in 2005 as a way to farm out tasks that are easy for humans to complete but too challenging for computers.

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 ...

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 ...

A new study led by Dr. Vadim Axelrod, of the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University, has revealed serious concerns about the quality of data collected on ...