Amazon Shuts Down Mechanical Turk as AI Takes Over Human Micro-Tasks

Amazon has shut down its Mechanical Turk programme, a platform where human workers completed small digital tasks for minimal pay — often described as "artificial artificial intelligence" because it used human labour to mimic automation. Real AI has now taken over those tasks, making the programme obsolete. One worker compared its closure to seeing "an old friend well past their expiration date finally getting put to rest."

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