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Amazon announced it will permanently retire Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk), the crowdsourced task platform it launched in 2005, effective September 30, 2026. The company cited its routine practice of evaluating tools and services, without giving a specific reason, though MTurk has reportedly been losing ground to newer AI-training platforms for years.
Amazon has announced it will close Mechanical Turk (MTurk), its long-running marketplace connecting businesses with a distributed workforce for microtasks, effective September 30. The platform allowed companies to outsource work like data validation, content moderation, and survey collection to human workers worldwide, tasks often too subjective or complex for automation.
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, the marketplace it launched in 2005 where businesses paid workers small sums to complete tasks like data labeling and surveys. The platform quietly built the infrastructure and workforce model that later became essential for training AI systems on human-generated data.
Amazon announced it will close AWS Mechanical Turk, its 21-year-old crowdsourced task platform, effective September 30, 2026. The service once connected over 500,000 workers to small paid digital tasks like data labeling and transcription, work Jeff Bezos called 'artificial artificial intelligence.' Amazon said the closure follows an internal review of its programs and tools.