AWS halts new customer sign-ups for Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform
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Simon Sharwood
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Amazon Web Services is shutting down new customer sign-ups for Mechanical Turk, its long-running crowdsourcing marketplace that connects requesters with gig workers. The service, launched in 2005 and named after a famous 18th-century chess-playing hoax machine, is being phased out for new users. Workers report that AWS is also closing existing accounts, signaling the platform's decline. The article notes that even AI cannot rescue the aging service from its fate.
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bskyAWS halts new customer sign-ups for Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platformtheregister.comKey quotes
· 3 pulledAmazon 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.
Workers who use OG crowdsourcing platform say AWS is closing accounts
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