Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30

Amazon Mechanical Turk will cease operations on September 30. The platform has enabled businesses to outsource micro-tasks—such as data validation, content moderation, and machine-learning annotation—to a global, on-demand workforce via a web UI or API, reducing labor costs and scaling flexibility. Major users like the Allen Institute for AI have relied on its human-in-the-loop capabilities to create annotated datasets for AI research.