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# Amazon sunsets Mechanical Turk, the original "Artificial Artificial Intelligence"

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**Published:** July 6, 2026  
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Amazon Web Services is shutting down its crowdsourcing service Mechanical Turk to new customers starting July 30, 2026. The article Amazon sunsets Mechanical Turk, the original "Artificial Artificial Intelligence" appeared first on The Decoder.

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