AI & Crowdsourcing Platforms
AI & Crowdsourcing Platforms
Articles on crowdsourcing platforms, their role in AI development, and the impact of platform shutdowns on cloud infrastructure and AI services.
ai crowdsourcing platformsJul 8, 20266 min
AWS Pulls the Plug on Mechanical Turk, Its 20-Year-Old Crowdsourcing Platform
Amazon Web Services is shutting down Mechanical Turk — the crowdsourcing marketplace it launched in 2005 and which helped pioneer human-in-the-loop AI data labeling. New customer sign-ups close July 30, 2026 as AWS pivots to its own SageMaker GroundTruth and third-party providers.