Amazon’s ‘Artificial Artificial Intelligence’ Is Being Eaten by AI

Amazon founder Jeff Bezos has described Mechanical Turk as “artificial artificial intelligence.” Since its launch, however, ...

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk.
Tech Times

Amazon Mechanical Turk Closes: AI Consumed the Platform It Was Built to Fake

Amazon Mechanical Turk shutdown ends 21 years of invisible labor that powered the AI training industry, as AWS closes the ...

Amazon’s Mechanical Turk service now on life support as it stops accepting new users

Mechanical Turk service, in what is likely a death knell for the pioneering crowdsourcing marketplace. Launched in 2005, ...

Amazon begins wind-down of Mechanical Turk, stops accepting new customers

Amazon is winding down Mechanical Turk for new customers as the once-popular crowdsourcing platform loses relevance in the AI era.
Gizmodo

Horror Stories From Inside Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

All products featured here are independently selected by our editors and writers. If you buy something through links on our site, Gizmodo may earn an affiliate commission. Reading time 10 minutes The ...
Fast Company

What it’s really like to be one of the ghost workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

Joan wears her hair in a loose bun skewered by shiny black chopsticks to keep it out of her eyes while she’s working. She’s been living in Houston since 2011, when she returned to care for her 81-year ...