Amazon Mechanical Turk, the site named after a machine that was impersonated by a human, is being shutdown because too many workers are using machines to impersonate themselves. https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/05/amazon-will-stop-accepting-new-customers-for-mechanical-turk/ #MechanicalTurk #AI
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