Data Authenticity Is Now The Real Currency Of AI Research

Someone still has to decide where a verification system’s thresholds sit, and whether a borderline response deserves a second ...

‘Losing a piece of my life’: As Amazon’s Mechanical Turk shuts down, gig workers recall the HITs

Launched in 2005 as a platform where human workers could perform quick digital chores that early software couldn't handle, ...
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Amazon Mechanical Turk will close September 30, shutting down SageMaker Ground Truth too

Amazon confirmed Tuesday that Mechanical Turk will permanently close on September 30, 2026 — giving existing requesters and workers thirty-five days to migrate workflows, verify payment settings, and ...
CNBC

Amazon service Bezos once called 'artificial artificial intelligence' is shutting down

Amazon announced it's shuttering Mechanical Turk, a platform that matches workers with small digital tasks, on Sept. 30. The platform launched in 2005 as a way to farm out tasks that are easy for ...
EurekAlert!

Research highlights unreliable responses from most Amazon MTurk users, except for 'master' workers

A new study led by Dr. Vadim Axelrod, of the Gonda (Goldschmied) Multidisciplinary Brain Research Center at Bar-Ilan University, has revealed serious concerns about the quality of data collected on ...
Fast Company

What it’s really like to be one of the ghost workers on Amazon’s Mechanical Turk

Joan wears her hair in a loose bun skewered by shiny black chopsticks to keep it out of her eyes while she’s working. She’s been living in Houston since 2011, when she returned to care for her 81-year ...
Psychology Today

My Experience as an Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) Worker

Source: Labor by txmx-2/ Flickr licensed under CC BY 2.0 Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is currently the most popular crowdsourced marketplace for work. It has rapidly transformed how social science ...