Amazon will close Mechanical Turk on 30 September. A 2023 study found up to 46% of its workers were already using AI to do the tasks.

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