The Twilight of the Turk: Amazon’s Iconic Crowdsourcing Pioneer Faces Sunset
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July 5, 2026
For nearly two decades, Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) has functioned as the invisible scaffolding of the digital age. It was a digital marketplace where “human intelligence tasks” (HITs)—small, often monotonous chores ranging from transcribing audio to…
