Amazon Will Stop Accepting New Customers For Mechanical Turk (techcrunch.com)
(Tuesday July 07, 2026 @05:00PM (BeauHD)
from the days-are-limited dept.)
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- News link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/26/07/07/0715252/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/
An anonymous reader quotes a report from TechCrunch:
> These may be the last days of [1]Amazon's Mechanical Turk . An announcement on the [2]Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service [3]will close to new customers . Amazon Web Services [4]says the decision was made after "careful consideration," adding, "Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues to invest in security and availability improvements for Mechanical Turk, but we do not plan to introduce new features." In other words, Amazon isn't completely pulling the plug, but the service is very much on life support.
Further reading: [5]Horror Stories From Inside Amazon's Mechanical Turk (2020)
[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/11/04/1336240/amazons-mechanical-turk
[2] https://www.mturk.com/
[3] https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/
[4] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/sms-workforce-management-public.html
[5] https://slashdot.org/story/20/01/29/169210/horror-stories-from-inside-amazons-mechanical-turk
> These may be the last days of [1]Amazon's Mechanical Turk . An announcement on the [2]Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service [3]will close to new customers . Amazon Web Services [4]says the decision was made after "careful consideration," adding, "Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal. AWS continues to invest in security and availability improvements for Mechanical Turk, but we do not plan to introduce new features." In other words, Amazon isn't completely pulling the plug, but the service is very much on life support.
Further reading: [5]Horror Stories From Inside Amazon's Mechanical Turk (2020)
[1] https://tech.slashdot.org/story/05/11/04/1336240/amazons-mechanical-turk
[2] https://www.mturk.com/
[3] https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/
[4] https://docs.aws.amazon.com/sagemaker/latest/dg/sms-workforce-management-public.html
[5] https://slashdot.org/story/20/01/29/169210/horror-stories-from-inside-amazons-mechanical-turk
AI comes for turks (Score:2)
by nospam007 ( 722110 ) *
Like the PC came for typists.
Re: (Score:2)
by Fly Swatter ( 30498 )
Um, the PC has a keyboard.. All they did was relabel the job from 'typist' to 'data entry'.
LLM Replacement? (Score:4, Interesting)
I wonder whether this indicates that people are replacing usage with LLMs. I don't have direct experience with mechanical Turk, but i assume since it relies on humans paid almost nothing the output won't be perfect thus is similar in quality to LLMs
Re: (Score:2)
LLMs and humans are both unreliable, but make different mistakes.
Use one to check the other.
Disclaimer: I have used Mechanical Turk many times, but not recently.
Re: (Score:2)
The problem cuts both ways for these sties, the people wanting the job done use LLM's, and many people doing the job also use LLM's and thus are effectively scamming the client if they are looking for human input.