Amazon company has stopped accepting new customers on its labor platform

Amazon has officially announced that it will stop accepting new customers for its long-standing Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing platform. This was reported by Zamin.uz.

This decision indicates that serious changes are occurring in the digital labor market during a period of unprecedented development in artificial intelligence and automation technologies. According to the established plans, the service will be completely closed to new users starting July 30, 2026.

This is being viewed as a sign that the platform is gradually winding down its operations. Representatives of the Amazon Web Services division emphasized that this decision was made as a result of a thorough study and analysis of the market situation.

Existing customers can continue to use the service as usual, but the company does not plan to add new features or further develop the platform. From now on, the primary focus will be solely on ensuring security and system stability.

This means the project has effectively entered its final stage. Launched in 2005, this platform was considered a revolutionary innovation in the tech world at the time.

It brought together thousands of remote workers to perform tasks that were complex for computers but simple for humans, such as sorting images or identifying content in text. The platform's name was given in honor of the famous 18th-century automaton that played chess, which actually had a person hidden inside.

In recent years, this service was widely used for data labeling to train neural networks. While many startups advertised their products as fully automated systems, in reality, thousands of workers were performing those tasks manually behind the scenes.

However, recent studies showed that the workers on the platform themselves began using AI bots to complete their tasks. This reduced the reliability of the data that was supposed to require human labor.

The increase in fraud on the platform and the fact that artificial intelligence has begun to work faster and cheaper than humans sealed the fate of this service. Maintaining the system has now become economically inefficient for Amazon.

The closure of this platform signals the beginning of a new era in the digital labor market, where high-tech automated systems are replacing human labor.