Amazon Shuts Down Mechanical Turk After 21 Years | dailyai.report
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Amazon Shuts Down Mechanical Turk After 21 Years
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, ending two decades of crowdsourced digital labor. LLMs now automate the precise data labeling and human-intelligence tasks that once sustained the platform. This closure removes a primary source of low-cost training data for researchers.
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Developers must now pivot to specialized synthetic data or alternative labeling vendors.