Amazon stops taking new Mechanical Turk customers as the crowd-work era ends (techcrunch.com)
A 2023 analysis found that 33 to 46% of MTurk workers were themselves running LLMs to complete tasks. The human labour Amazon resold was, increasingly, machines wearing a human badge.
Yet the top-voted diagnosis isn't "AI ate the job." It's simpler: a bad product finally outcompeted.
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