#mechanicalturk — Public Fediverse posts

https://www.europesays.com/people/206189/ Jeff Bezos : Amazon is shutting down its 21-year-old platform that Amazon founder Jeff Bezos described as ‘artificial artificial intelligence’ at its launch in 2005 | #AITrainingData #Amazon #CrowdsourcedWorkPlatform #JeffBezos #MechanicalTurk

"... Musk has now twice done demos of his robots, and the first one turned out to be literally a person in a robot suit ... The second one, was a remote-control robot, and again, he was like 'it's an autonomous robot bartender', not really autonomous ... it's really smoke-and-mirrorsy."

@pluralistic, 2026

https://craphound.com/news/2026/06/23/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai-launch-at-keplers-books-with-angie-coiro/

Just wow. An actual, literal, in-person, mechanical turk. Why does anyone still believe anything that grifter says, ever, about anything?

#ElonMusk #MechanicalTurk

"... Musk has now twice done demos of his robots, and the first one turned out to be literally a person in a robot suit ... The second one, was a remote-control robot, and again, he was like 'it's an autonomous robot bartender', not really autonomous ... it's really smoke-and-mirrorsy."

@pluralistic, 2026

https://craphound.com/news/2026/06/23/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai-launch-at-keplers-books-with-angie-coiro/

Just wow. An actual, literal, in-person, mechanical turk. Why does anyone still believe anything that grifter says, ever, about anything?

#ElonMusk #MechanicalTurk

"... Musk has now twice done demos of his robots, and the first one turned out to be literally a person in a robot suit ... The second one, was a remote-control robot, and again, he was like 'it's an autonomous robot bartender', not really autonomous ... it's really smoke-and-mirrorsy."

@pluralistic, 2026

https://craphound.com/news/2026/06/23/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai-launch-at-keplers-books-with-angie-coiro/

Just wow. An actual, literal, in-person, mechanical turk. Why does anyone still believe anything that grifter says, ever, about anything?

#ElonMusk #MechanicalTurk

"... Musk has now twice done demos of his robots, and the first one turned out to be literally a person in a robot suit ... The second one, was a remote-control robot, and again, he was like 'it's an autonomous robot bartender', not really autonomous ... it's really smoke-and-mirrorsy."

@pluralistic, 2026

https://craphound.com/news/2026/06/23/the-reverse-centaurs-guide-to-life-after-ai-launch-at-keplers-books-with-angie-coiro/

Just wow. An actual, literal, in-person, mechanical turk. Why does anyone still believe anything that grifter says, ever, about anything?

#ElonMusk #MechanicalTurk

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457545

#HackerNews #MechanicalTurk #Shutdown #September30 #MTurk #News #TechUpdates #GigEconomy #Automation

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457545

#HackerNews #MechanicalTurk #Shutdown #September30 #MTurk #News #TechUpdates #GigEconomy #Automation

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457545

#HackerNews #MechanicalTurk #Shutdown #September30 #MTurk #News #TechUpdates #GigEconomy #Automation

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457545

#HackerNews #MechanicalTurk #Shutdown #September30 #MTurk #News #TechUpdates #GigEconomy #Automation

Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

https://www.mturk.com/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49457545

#HackerNews #MechanicalTurk #Shutdown #September30 #MTurk #News #TechUpdates #GigEconomy #Automation

#Amazon is shutting down its crowdsourced work platform, #MechanicalTurk, on 30 September 2026. Launched in 2005, the platform matched workers with simple digital jobs, but its decline was attributed to the rise of #AI models and competing #datalabelling services. While some companies still rely on #MTurk, workers are concerned about finding alternative platforms for supplemental income. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezos-called-artificial-ai-is-shutting-down.html?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews

#Amazon is shutting down its crowdsourced work platform, #MechanicalTurk, on 30 September 2026. Launched in 2005, the platform matched workers with simple digital jobs, but its decline was attributed to the rise of #AI models and competing #datalabelling services. While some companies still rely on #MTurk, workers are concerned about finding alternative platforms for supplemental income. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezos-called-artificial-ai-is-shutting-down.html?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews

#Amazon is shutting down its crowdsourced work platform, #MechanicalTurk, on 30 September 2026. Launched in 2005, the platform matched workers with simple digital jobs, but its decline was attributed to the rise of #AI models and competing #datalabelling services. While some companies still rely on #MTurk, workers are concerned about finding alternative platforms for supplemental income. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezos-called-artificial-ai-is-shutting-down.html?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews

#Amazon is shutting down its crowdsourced work platform, #MechanicalTurk, on 30 September 2026. Launched in 2005, the platform matched workers with simple digital jobs, but its decline was attributed to the rise of #AI models and competing #datalabelling services. While some companies still rely on #MTurk, workers are concerned about finding alternative platforms for supplemental income. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezos-called-artificial-ai-is-shutting-down.html?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews

#Amazon is shutting down its crowdsourced work platform, #MechanicalTurk, on 30 September 2026. Launched in 2005, the platform matched workers with simple digital jobs, but its decline was attributed to the rise of #AI models and competing #datalabelling services. While some companies still rely on #MTurk, workers are concerned about finding alternative platforms for supplemental income. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezos-called-artificial-ai-is-shutting-down.html?eicker.news #tech #news #ainews

CNBC: Amazon service Bezos once called ‘artificial artificial intelligence’ is shutting down. “Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday…. Launched in 2005, Mechanical Turk matches legions of workers with simple digital jobs, or ‘Human Intelligence Tasks,’ that typically pay out a few cents per task. […]

CNBC: Amazon service Bezos once called ‘artificial artificial intelligence’ is shutting down. “Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday…. Launched in 2005, Mechanical Turk matches legions of workers with simple digital jobs, or ‘Human Intelligence Tasks,’ that typically pay out a few cents per task. […]

CNBC: Amazon service Bezos once called ‘artificial artificial intelligence’ is shutting down. “Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday…. Launched in 2005, Mechanical Turk matches legions of workers with simple digital jobs, or ‘Human Intelligence Tasks,’ that typically pay out a few cents per task. […]

CNBC: Amazon service Bezos once called ‘artificial artificial intelligence’ is shutting down. “Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday…. Launched in 2005, Mechanical Turk matches legions of workers with simple digital jobs, or ‘Human Intelligence Tasks,’ that typically pay out a few cents per task. […]

CNBC: Amazon service Bezos once called ‘artificial artificial intelligence’ is shutting down. “Amazon is soon pulling the plug on its 21-year-old crowdsourced work platform, called Mechanical Turk, the company said Tuesday…. Launched in 2005, Mechanical Turk matches legions of workers with simple digital jobs, or ‘Human Intelligence Tasks,’ that typically pay out a few cents per task. […]

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI

"Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September, ending the 21-year-old marketplace that paid people cents a task to do what computers could not. A 2023 study found up to 46% of its workers were already using AI to complete the jobs. "

by Alina Maria Stan / via TheNextWeb

#Amazon #AI #mechanicalTurk #humanIntelligence #tech

https://thenextweb.com/news/amazon-mechanical-turk-closing-september-2026

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI

"Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September, ending the 21-year-old marketplace that paid people cents a task to do what computers could not. A 2023 study found up to 46% of its workers were already using AI to complete the jobs. "

by Alina Maria Stan / via TheNextWeb

#Amazon #AI #mechanicalTurk #humanIntelligence #tech

https://thenextweb.com/news/amazon-mechanical-turk-closing-september-2026

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI

"Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September, ending the 21-year-old marketplace that paid people cents a task to do what computers could not. A 2023 study found up to 46% of its workers were already using AI to complete the jobs. "

by Alina Maria Stan / via TheNextWeb

#Amazon #AI #mechanicalTurk #humanIntelligence #tech

https://thenextweb.com/news/amazon-mechanical-turk-closing-september-2026

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI

"Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September, ending the 21-year-old marketplace that paid people cents a task to do what computers could not. A 2023 study found up to 46% of its workers were already using AI to complete the jobs. "

by Alina Maria Stan / via TheNextWeb

#Amazon #AI #mechanicalTurk #humanIntelligence #tech

https://thenextweb.com/news/amazon-mechanical-turk-closing-september-2026

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk, the human workforce it sold as AI

"Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September, ending the 21-year-old marketplace that paid people cents a task to do what computers could not. A 2023 study found up to 46% of its workers were already using AI to complete the jobs. "

by Alina Maria Stan / via TheNextWeb

#Amazon #AI #mechanicalTurk #humanIntelligence #tech

https://thenextweb.com/news/amazon-mechanical-turk-closing-september-2026

AWS to Shut Down Mechanical Turk After 21 Years of ‘Artificial AI’

Amazon kills the crowdsourcing platform that trained a generation of AI models, as the models it helped build replace the human workers.

https://pulseofnations.lol/aws-to-shut-down/

#AiTraining #Amazon #Aws #Crowdsourcing #DataLabeling #MechanicalTurk #OpenAI #ScaleAi

Annie Palmer reports that Amazon's Mechanical Turk is shutting down in 2026. Launched in 2005, the platform once provided critical micro-tasks for over 500,000 workers who relied on it for flexible income before AI advancements and new competitors shifted the landscape. This shift highlights a significant challenge for gig workers as technology rapidly evolves their roles in the economy. Read more about how these workers must now adapt to an automated future at the link below. Great analysis by Annie Palmer.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezos-called-artificial-ai-is-shutting-down.html #Amazon #MechanicalTurk #GigEconomy #AI

Annie Palmer reports that Amazon's Mechanical Turk is shutting down in 2026. Launched in 2005, the platform once provided critical micro-tasks for over 500,000 workers who relied on it for flexible income before AI advancements and new competitors shifted the landscape. This shift highlights a significant challenge for gig workers as technology rapidly evolves their roles in the economy. Read more about how these workers must now adapt to an automated future at the link below. Great analysis by Annie Palmer.

https://www.cnbc.com/2026/08/25/amazon-service-that-jeff-bezos-called-artificial-ai-is-shutting-down.html #Amazon #MechanicalTurk #GigEconomy #AI

Passing off digitally-delivered human labour as "AI" is clearly a deceptive business practice. Just as much as Theranos pretending their snake oil machine had done blood tests that were actually processed in labs.

I just wondered if anyone has been prosecuted for fraud for selling mechanical turk labour as "AI". So I did a quick web search, and the answer is yes, at least one; Albert Saniger, CEO of a "shopping startup" called Nate;

https://fortune.com/2025/04/11/albert-saniger-nate-shopping-app-fraud-ai-justice-department/

(1/?)

#MechanicalTurk #fraud #AI

Passing off digitally-delivered human labour as "AI" is clearly a deceptive business practice. Just as much as Theranos pretending their snake oil machine had done blood tests that were actually processed in labs.

I just wondered if anyone has been prosecuted for fraud for selling mechanical turk labour as "AI". So I did a quick web search, and the answer is yes, at least one; Albert Saniger, CEO of a "shopping startup" called Nate;

https://fortune.com/2025/04/11/albert-saniger-nate-shopping-app-fraud-ai-justice-department/

(1/?)

#MechanicalTurk #fraud #AI

Passing off digitally-delivered human labour as "AI" is clearly a deceptive business practice. Just as much as Theranos pretending their snake oil machine had done blood tests that were actually processed in labs.

I just wondered if anyone has been prosecuted for fraud for selling mechanical turk labour as "AI". So I did a quick web search, and the answer is yes, at least one; Albert Saniger, CEO of a "shopping startup" called Nate;

https://fortune.com/2025/04/11/albert-saniger-nate-shopping-app-fraud-ai-justice-department/

(1/?)

#MechanicalTurk #fraud #AI

Passing off digitally-delivered human labour as "AI" is clearly a deceptive business practice. Just as much as Theranos pretending their snake oil machine had done blood tests that were actually processed in labs.

I just wondered if anyone has been prosecuted for fraud for selling mechanical turk labour as "AI". So I did a quick web search, and the answer is yes, at least one; Albert Saniger, CEO of a "shopping startup" called Nate;

https://fortune.com/2025/04/11/albert-saniger-nate-shopping-app-fraud-ai-justice-department/

(1/?)

#MechanicalTurk #fraud #AI

https://www.europesays.com/people/179932/ Will companies ever be run by an AI CEO? #AICompany #ArtificialIntelligence #MarkZuckerberg #MechanicalTurk #SamAltman

We’re officially going cold turkey - Amazon Mechanical Turk is being slowly shut down. The foundational took for AI launched in 2005, and is now closed to new customers. Join us for the memorial service this week on episode 362 of The Cloud Pod. #MechanicalTurk #AWS #SunsetService #TheCloudPod

https://www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/362-mechanical-turk-api/

We’re officially going cold turkey - Amazon Mechanical Turk is being slowly shut down. The foundational took for AI launched in 2005, and is now closed to new customers. Join us for the memorial service this week on episode 362 of The Cloud Pod. #MechanicalTurk #AWS #SunsetService #TheCloudPod

https://www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/362-mechanical-turk-api/

We’re officially going cold turkey - Amazon Mechanical Turk is being slowly shut down. The foundational took for AI launched in 2005, and is now closed to new customers. Join us for the memorial service this week on episode 362 of The Cloud Pod. #MechanicalTurk #AWS #SunsetService #TheCloudPod

https://www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/362-mechanical-turk-api/

We’re officially going cold turkey - Amazon Mechanical Turk is being slowly shut down. The foundational took for AI launched in 2005, and is now closed to new customers. Join us for the memorial service this week on episode 362 of The Cloud Pod. #MechanicalTurk #AWS #SunsetService #TheCloudPod

https://www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/362-mechanical-turk-api/

We’re officially going cold turkey - Amazon Mechanical Turk is being slowly shut down. The foundational took for AI launched in 2005, and is now closed to new customers. Join us for the memorial service this week on episode 362 of The Cloud Pod. #MechanicalTurk #AWS #SunsetService #TheCloudPod

https://www.thecloudpod.net/podcast/362-mechanical-turk-api/

Amazon Mechanical Turk, the site named after a machine that was impersonated by a human, is being shutdown because too many workers are using machines to impersonate themselves. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/ #MechanicalTurk #AI

Amazon Mechanical Turk, the site named after a machine that was impersonated by a human, is being shutdown because too many workers are using machines to impersonate themselves. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/ #MechanicalTurk #AI

Amazon Mechanical Turk, the site named after a machine that was impersonated by a human, is being shutdown because too many workers are using machines to impersonate themselves. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/ #MechanicalTurk #AI

Amazon Mechanical Turk, the site named after a machine that was impersonated by a human, is being shutdown because too many workers are using machines to impersonate themselves. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/ #MechanicalTurk #AI

Amazon Mechanical Turk, the site named after a machine that was impersonated by a human, is being shutdown because too many workers are using machines to impersonate themselves. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/ #MechanicalTurk #AI

https://www.europesays.com/people/142811/ Jeff Bezos Says AI Is a Bulldozer, Not a Replacement, as Amazon Winds Down Its Original ‘Artificial AI’ — BigGo Finance #Amazon #AmazonWebServices #amzn #cnbc #DeepBlue #IBM #JeffBezos #MechanicalTurk #MTurk #SageMakerAI

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says…
#NewsBeep #News #Artificialintelligence #AI #Amazon #AmazonWebServices #ArtificialIntelligence #mechanicalturk #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom
https://www.newsbeep.com/uk/675695/

https://www.europesays.com/uk/1070729/ Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk #AI #Amazon #AmazonWebServices #ArtificialIntelligence #MechanicalTurk #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom

The Register: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it. “Earlier this week, AWS added the Amazon SageMaker AI – Mechanical Turk service to its list of ‘Services in Maintenance’ – AWS-speak for services it will soon retire. The Mechanical Turk website also added a warning that it will ‘be closed to new customers, effective July 30, 2026. […]

The Register: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it. “Earlier this week, AWS added the Amazon SageMaker AI – Mechanical Turk service to its list of ‘Services in Maintenance’ – AWS-speak for services it will soon retire. The Mechanical Turk website also added a warning that it will ‘be closed to new customers, effective July 30, 2026. […]

The Register: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it. “Earlier this week, AWS added the Amazon SageMaker AI – Mechanical Turk service to its list of ‘Services in Maintenance’ – AWS-speak for services it will soon retire. The Mechanical Turk website also added a warning that it will ‘be closed to new customers, effective July 30, 2026. […]

The Register: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it. “Earlier this week, AWS added the Amazon SageMaker AI – Mechanical Turk service to its list of ‘Services in Maintenance’ – AWS-speak for services it will soon retire. The Mechanical Turk website also added a warning that it will ‘be closed to new customers, effective July 30, 2026. […]

The Register: Amazon’s Mechanical Turk to stop accepting new customers – and not even AI can save it. “Earlier this week, AWS added the Amazon SageMaker AI – Mechanical Turk service to its list of ‘Services in Maintenance’ – AWS-speak for services it will soon retire. The Mechanical Turk website also added a warning that it will ‘be closed to new customers, effective July 30, 2026. […]

#AmazonWebServices will #stop accepting new customers for #MechanicalTurk, a crowdsourcing marketplace, on 30 July 2026. Existing users will not be impacted, but the service will no longer accept jobs for #SageMaker and other tasks. The reason for the retirement is unclear, though #AWS has developed competing services and allows integration with third-party platforms. https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/07/03/amazons-mechanical-turk-to-stop-accepting-new-customers-and-not-even-ai-can-save-it/5266274?eicker.news #tech #media #news

#AmazonWebServices will #stop accepting new customers for #MechanicalTurk, a crowdsourcing marketplace, on 30 July 2026. Existing users will not be impacted, but the service will no longer accept jobs for #SageMaker and other tasks. The reason for the retirement is unclear, though #AWS has developed competing services and allows integration with third-party platforms. https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/07/03/amazons-mechanical-turk-to-stop-accepting-new-customers-and-not-even-ai-can-save-it/5266274?eicker.news #tech #media #news

#AmazonWebServices will #stop accepting new customers for #MechanicalTurk, a crowdsourcing marketplace, on 30 July 2026. Existing users will not be impacted, but the service will no longer accept jobs for #SageMaker and other tasks. The reason for the retirement is unclear, though #AWS has developed competing services and allows integration with third-party platforms. https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/07/03/amazons-mechanical-turk-to-stop-accepting-new-customers-and-not-even-ai-can-save-it/5266274?eicker.news #tech #media #news

#AmazonWebServices will #stop accepting new customers for #MechanicalTurk, a crowdsourcing marketplace, on 30 July 2026. Existing users will not be impacted, but the service will no longer accept jobs for #SageMaker and other tasks. The reason for the retirement is unclear, though #AWS has developed competing services and allows integration with third-party platforms. https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/07/03/amazons-mechanical-turk-to-stop-accepting-new-customers-and-not-even-ai-can-save-it/5266274?eicker.news #tech #media #news

#AmazonWebServices will #stop accepting new customers for #MechanicalTurk, a crowdsourcing marketplace, on 30 July 2026. Existing users will not be impacted, but the service will no longer accept jobs for #SageMaker and other tasks. The reason for the retirement is unclear, though #AWS has developed competing services and allows integration with third-party platforms. https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/07/03/amazons-mechanical-turk-to-stop-accepting-new-customers-and-not-even-ai-can-save-it/5266274?eicker.news #tech #media #news

I bet *all* the AI products are just drones run by poor brown and black folks oversees. It’s all tech slavery and outsourcing.

I wonder if the #Tesla FSD is just underpaid oversees chauffeurs driving the car over Wi-Fi. Maybe the crashes happen when there’s lag or a disconnect? It would be giving Ender’s Game if the people driving for us thought they were just playing a game.

https://youtu.be/ClPDbwql34o

#AI #mechanicalturk #LLMs #tech #ItsAllBeenLies

I bet *all* the AI products are just drones run by poor brown and black folks oversees. It’s all tech slavery and outsourcing.

I wonder if the #Tesla FSD is just underpaid oversees chauffeurs driving the car over Wi-Fi. Maybe the crashes happen when there’s lag or a disconnect? It would be giving Ender’s Game if the people driving for us thought they were just playing a game.

https://youtu.be/ClPDbwql34o

#AI #mechanicalturk #LLMs #tech #ItsAllBeenLies

I bet *all* the AI products are just drones run by poor brown and black folks oversees. It’s all tech slavery and outsourcing.

I wonder if the #Tesla FSD is just underpaid oversees chauffeurs driving the car over Wi-Fi. Maybe the crashes happen when there’s lag or a disconnect? It would be giving Ender’s Game if the people driving for us thought they were just playing a game.

https://youtu.be/ClPDbwql34o

#AI #mechanicalturk #LLMs #tech #ItsAllBeenLies

I bet *all* the AI products are just drones run by poor brown and black folks oversees. It’s all tech slavery and outsourcing.

I wonder if the #Tesla FSD is just underpaid oversees chauffeurs driving the car over Wi-Fi. Maybe the crashes happen when there’s lag or a disconnect? It would be giving Ender’s Game if the people driving for us thought they were just playing a game.

https://youtu.be/ClPDbwql34o

#AI #mechanicalturk #LLMs #tech #ItsAllBeenLies