Amazon Mechanical Turk shuts down on 2026-09-30
- Sources: Mechanical Turk, HN 49457545
- Summary: Amazon Mechanical Turk carries a shutdown notice on mturk.com giving a closing date of 2026-09-30. The crowd-work marketplace and the programmatic interface that drives it stop on that date.
- Why it matters: Any pipeline that routes human labeling or evaluation tasks through the Mechanical Turk API has a hard date to migrate off it.