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Amazon stops accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
TechCrunch Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk
Amazon has stopped onboarding new customers for its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace, signaling a potential end for the long-running data labeling service.
Why it matters
For years, this platform was the primary way developers hired humans to label AI training data; its decline marks a shift toward AI-generated training data.
Latest brief · Jul 22, 2026