Amazon Sets Final Closure of Mechanical Turk, Its Crowdsourcing Marketplace
Amazon has posted a closure notice on the official Mechanical Turk site confirming that its crowdsourcing marketplace will permanently close on September 30, 2026. The decision ends the service that matched businesses and developers with a distributed human workforce for small digital tasks, which Amazon termed Artificial Artificial Intelligence. "We regularly evaluate our programs, tools, and services and make adjustments based on those assessments," the notice reads. "Following an assessment…
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Amazon has posted a closure notice on the official Mechanical Turk site confirming that its crowdsourcing marketplace will permanently close on September 30, 2026. The decision ends the service that matched businesses and developers with a distributed human workforce for small digital tasks, which Amazon termed Artificial Artificial Intelligence. "We regularly evaluate our programs, tools, and services and make adjustments based on those assessments," the notice reads. "Following an assessment…