Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

	Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30(mturk.com)
	532 points by tmp10423288442 14 days ago \| 164 comments
	tl;dr: Amazon Mechanical Turk, the pioneering crowdsourcing marketplace launched in 2005 for outsourcing microtasks like data validation, content moderation, and survey work to a distributed human workforce, is shutting down on September 30. The provided article text only describes what MTurk is and the rationale for crowdsourcing, without giving specific reasons for the shutdown.
	HN Discussion: ↑AI has made MTurk obsolete for the unskilled tasks it specialized in ↑Insider context confirms Amazon abandoned the project by reallocating leadership to AI services •Nostalgic personal stories about how MTurk helped or touched them positively ↓The shutdown is surprising because MTurk could be valuable for agentic AI real-world tasks ↑Quality had degraded badly, making shutdown understandable