Amazon announced the closure of its crowdsourced work platform, Mechanical Turk, effective September 30, 2026, marking the end of a service launched in 2005.

Mechanical Turk launched in 2005 as a way to farm out tasks that are easy for humans to complete but too challenging for computers.

Mechanical Turk launched in 2005 as a service matching workers with simple digital jobs for them to do and be paid for