These may be the last days of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. An announcement on the Mechanical Turk website says that on July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Amazon Web ...

Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourced labor platform operated by Amazon since 2005, has announced plans to permanently shut down at the end of September, company representatives confirmed, sending ...

Launched in 2005 as a platform where human workers could perform quick digital chores that early software couldn't handle, the marketplace became a fixture for researchers, remote freelancers, and ...

An Amazon diagram about the Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform. Some workers who participate in Amazon’s Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace say the company suspended their payments accounts ...

AWS will shut down Amazon Mechanical Turk on Sept. 30, ending a 21-year platform that supplied human data and labor for research and AI projects. Amazon Mechanical Turk will shut down Sept. 30, 2026, ...

Amazon confirmed Tuesday that Mechanical Turk will permanently close on September 30, 2026 — giving existing requesters and workers thirty-five days to migrate workflows, verify payment settings, and ...

Amazon is closing Mechanical Turk on 30 September, ending the 21-year-old marketplace that paid people cents a task to do what computers could not. A 2023 study found up to 46% of its workers were ...