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Amazon Is Closing Mechanical Turk — The Hidden Human Labor Behind AI
Amazon will permanently close Mechanical Turk on September 30, 2026, ending one of the clearest examples of human judgment delivered through a software interface. The immediate story is practical: workers, requesters, researchers, and AWS customers have payment, approval, transition, and records deadlines to meet. The larger story is about artificial intelligence—and how often systems that look automated still depend on people whose work is easy to overlook. Dr. Mike explains what Amazon has actually announced, why the service called itself "artificial artificial intelligence," how crowd…
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