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Amazon to Wind Down Mechanical Turk as AI Replaces Human Annotators

July 5, 2026 17:43 External link
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Amazon announced that its Mechanical Turk crowdsourcing marketplace will stop accepting new customers starting in July 2026. The platform, once vital for human-in-the-loop data annotation, has struggled with bot fraud an...

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Experts Question Reliability and Ethics of Crowdsourced AI Evaluation Methods

April 22, 2025 12:30 External link
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AI experts are raising concerns about the validity and ethics of crowdsourced benchmarking platforms like Chatbot Arena that are increasingly used by major AI labs to evaluate their models. Critics argue these platforms...

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