Amazon Mechanical Turk Ends New Customer Registrations in July 2026
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Highest ranked@willccbb you're right it's undermonetized. crowdsourced data hits a consistency wall. wages rose in sourcing countries. teams move to specialists and rarely come back. that's why the $5B never happened.

@emollick Bu the bigger loss is all those gloriously inconsistent human answers that made the data actually interesting.

@emollick AI isn't just changing jobs. It's changing how research itself gets done. Adaptation is becoming more important than tradition.
it's like if apple did the ipod touch and then was like nah we're not gonna do phones