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Amazon to stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing service launched in 2005, will stop accepting new customers on July 30, 2026. The service will be available only for existing customers, who can continue to use it as normal. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after 'careful consideration,' but the service is very m
Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing service launched in 2005, will stop accepting new customers on July 30, 2026. The service will be available only for existing customers, who can continue to use it as normal. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after 'careful consideration,' but the service is very much on life support. The decision may affect the reliability of data annotated by Mechanical Turk, especially considering that between 33% and 46% of workers on the platform were using large language models to complete their tasks.
Amazon's Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing service launched in 2005, will stop accepting new customers on July 30, 2026. The service will be available only for existing customers, who can continue to use it as normal. Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after 'careful consideration,' but the service is very m
- Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing service launched in 2005.
- The service will be available only for existing customers after July 30, 2026.
- Amazon Web Services says the decision was made after 'careful consideration,' adding that existing customers can continue to use the service as normal.
Miau Labs takeThe decision may affect the reliability of data annotated by Mechanical Turk, especially considering that between 33% and 46% of workers on the platform were using large language models to complete their tasks.