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1h agoAmazon Shuts Down Mechanical Turk
Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the crowdsourcing marketplace once dubbed "artificial artificial intelligence" by Jeff Bezos. The decision follows the rise of LLMs that now automate the data labeling and micro-tasks previously handled by humans. This shutdown removes a primary human-in-the-loop pipeline for researchers.
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It confirms that generative AI is cannibalizing the low-cost digital labor market.