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Amazon Shuts Down Mechanical Turk
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the crowdsourcing marketplace Jeff Bezos once called "artificial artificial intelligence." LLMs now automate the data labeling and micro-tasks that previously required thousands of human workers. This shutdown confirms that generative AI has finally commoditized human-in-the-loop services.
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Practitioners should expect a rapid decline in traditional manual data annotation markets.