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Amazon shuts down Mechanical Turk after 21 years

CNBC, Aug 25 · read the original

Amazon confirmed it is closing its crowdsourced micro-task platform, Jeff Bezos's old "artificial artificial intelligence," on September 30, years of decline accelerated by AI-training data-labeling startups pulling its workers away.

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