Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it ^28.1%

The Register - By Simon Sharwood - 7/3/2026, 2:22 AM

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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... more