Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years, quietly ending the human-powered platform
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, after 21 years, ending one of the internet’s earliest marketplaces for invisible digital labor—as well as a platform that helped establish the human-data pipeline behind modern AI. The company said Mechanical Turk will close on September 30, 2026
<p>Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, after 21 years, ending one of the internet’s earliest marketplaces for invisible digital labor—as well as a platform that helped establish the human-data pipeline behind modern AI.
The company said Mechanical Turk will close on September 30, 2026</p>