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Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it

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Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts

Amazon Web Services will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing service, and not even AI can save it.

Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing marketplace that allows users to post gigs, and workers to bid for the chance to do them. The service's name references an 18th-century machine that its inventor claimed could play chess - but which was actually operated remotely by a human.

AWS launched Mechanical Turk in November 2005 – a time when the cloudy concern focused on giving developers access to the functions of Amazon’s retail operations. The outfit’s now-mainstream infrastructure-as-a-service offerings debuted in 2006.

Amazon quickly claimed Mechanical Turk was a hit.

The platform was arguably a pioneer as it pre-dated other crowdsourcing services like Freelancer and Fiverr. In 2018, AWS suggested a new reason to use the service: having humans review...

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