2026-09-02 20:01 utc · economictimes.indiatimes.com

Amazon shutters the original gig economy after teaching AI to do it cheaper

Mechanical Turk, the platform that once paid humans pennies to label images and transcribe receipts, closes in September 2026. Turns out those 500,000 workers were just training their replacements. The irony of calling it 'artificial artificial intelligence' has finally resolved itself.

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