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AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026
AWS says it plans to shut down Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, following an assessment; the service, launched in 2005, outsourced tasks to humans
TL;DRAWS shutting down Mechanical Turk in September 2026 after 21 years of crowdsourced work.
Why it matters: Affects thousands of remote workers and researchers relying on the platform for income and data collection.
Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday.
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