Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

#1

Post by bookofjoe » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 12:51 PM UTC

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
techcrunch.com

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#2

Post by josefritzishere » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 1:36 PM UTC

It's a shame. Mechanical Turk works better than any AI.

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#3

Post by xandrius » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 1:55 PM UTC

josefritzishere wrote: post #2

It's a shame. Mechanical Turk works better than any AI.

It's still AI, just a different type.

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#4

Post by nullsmack » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:01 PM UTC

I had no idea this was still around.

It helped me buy a Battlefield 2 "Special Forces" expansion pack back in the day.

Well, I could've bought it either way but buying it didn't impact my normal income because I did Mechanical Turk in my free time enough to get it.

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Post by CodesInChaos » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:19 PM UTC

xandrius wrote: post #3

josefritzishere wrote: post #2

It's a shame. Mechanical Turk works better than any AI.

It's still AI, just a different type.

The Actually Indian kind?

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Post by CodesInChaos » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:24 PM UTC

> In a snake-eating-its-own-tail irony, a 2023 analysis found that between 33% and 46% of workers on the platform were using large language models to complete their tasks,

I assume AI use by workers has risen to the point where it renders Mechanical Turk pointless.

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Post by baggachipz » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:27 PM UTC

They moved all the Mechanical Turk workers over to robot and autotaxi piloting.

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Post by mghackerlady » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:33 PM UTC

CodesInChaos wrote: post #5

xandrius wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's still AI, just a different type.

The Actually Indian kind?

Hey, maybe they're Indonesian!

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Post by pwython » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:55 PM UTC

mghackerlady wrote: post #8

CodesInChaos wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The Actually Indian kind?

Hey, maybe they're Indonesian!

I thought they were Turkish.

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#10

Post by moralestapia » Mon, Jul 06, 2026, 2:55 PM UTC

CodesInChaos wrote: post #6

> In a snake-eating-its-own-tail irony, a 2023 analysis found that between 33% and 46% of workers on the platform were using large language models to complete their tasks, I assume AI use by workers has risen to the point where it renders Mechanical Turk pointless.

Yeah, I was doing this kind of Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence back in 2012 to make some extra $$$. Glad they finally "patched" that hole ^^.