“On July 30, 2026, the crowdsourcing service will close to new customers. Existing customers can continue to use the service as normal.”
Mechanical Turk invented the model where you dress up piecework as a tech product and pay people pennies to label data. That data trained the models that made the data labelers obsolete. Now Amazon is quietly walking it to the back and closing the door. The humans did their job. The job is finished with them.