Amazon Abandons Mechanical Turk Amid Controversy Over Exploitation and Opacity Amazon has decided to stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk platform, a move that has sparked both relief and unease in the tech industry.
While some see this as a natural evolution, others warn that it's a harbinger of darker consequences.
Mechanical Turk was launched in 2005 as a crowdsourced labor platform, but it quickly became synonymous with exploitation and opacity.