Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk after 21 years, quietly ending the human-powered platform
Culture Index
Score Breakdown
Relevance
10/25
Freshness
8/25
Authority
25/20
Brand Signal
10/15
Depth
4/15
5-Axis Cultural Radar
Amazon is shutting down Mechanical Turk, or MTurk, after 21 years, ending one of the internet’s earliest marketplaces for invisible digital labor—as well as a platform that helped establish the human-data pipeline behind modern AI . The company said Mechanical Turk will close on September 30, 2026, after an internal assessment. Amazon had already stopped accepting new customers on July 30. The ser
