Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk | TechCrunch

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Amazon has stopped accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk, the pioneering crowdsourcing marketplace used for years to label data. This marks a paradigm shift as developers move away from human-in-the-loop labeling toward cheaper, faster synthetic data and model-based evaluation. The platform that literally defined 'artificial artificial intelligence' is finally being automated out of existence.