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MTurk's Closure Alters AI's Human Data Supply Chain

Aug 26, 2026
MTurk's Closure Alters AI's Human Data Supply Chain

The shutdown of Amazon’s Mechanical Turk (MTurk) marks a pivotal moment, signaling the end of the first era of human-in-the-loop data processing and the dawn of a new one. Launched in 2005, MTurk was foundational, providing the human-labeled data that trained the last decade