Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

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CodesInChaos•about 1 hour ago

> In a snake-eating-its-own-tail irony, a 2023 analysis found that between 33% and 46% of workers on the platform were using large language models to complete their tasks,

I assume AI use by workers has risen to the point where it renders Mechanical Turk pointless.

moralestapia•28 minutes ago

Yeah, I was doing this kind of Artificial Artificial Artificial Intelligence back in 2012 to make some extra $$$. Glad they finally "patched" that hole ^^.

pc86•15 minutes ago

You were using LLMs in 2012?

simlevesque•9 minutes ago

They were faking artificial intelligence by using real individuals.

pixel_popping•8 minutes ago

Fiverr-5.5 was the leading model back then.

nullsmack•about 1 hour ago

I had no idea this was still around.

It helped me buy a Battlefield 2 "Special Forces" expansion pack back in the day.

Well, I could've bought it either way but buying it didn't impact my normal income because I did Mechanical Turk in my free time enough to get it.

baggachipz•about 1 hour ago

They moved all the Mechanical Turk workers over to robot and autotaxi piloting.

teddyh•7 minutes ago

And monitoring of “cashier-free” grocery stores.

josefritzishere•about 2 hours ago

It's a shame. Mechanical Turk works better than any AI.

xandrius•about 1 hour ago

It's still AI, just a different type.

CodesInChaos•about 1 hour ago

The Actually Indian kind?

mghackerlady•about 1 hour ago

Hey, maybe they're Indonesian!

Amazon will stop accepting new customers for Mechanical Turk

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