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13d agoAmazon Shuts Down Mechanical Turk
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the crowdsourcing marketplace Jeff Bezos once called "artificial artificial intelligence." The platform relied on humans to perform tasks too complex for machines. LLMs now automate these micro-tasks at scale.
The Signal
This shutdown removes a primary data labeling pipeline for researchers and marks the end of a long-standing human-in-the-loop experiment.