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Amazon announced that it will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk service. Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing platform that matches requesters with remote Amazon announced that it will stop accepting new customers for its Mechanical Turk
service. Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing platform that matches requesters with remote workers. The policy change applies only to prospective users; existing participants are not mentioned as affected. No specific date for the implementation of the restriction was
provided. Amazon did not disclose the reasons behind the decision. The announcement was reported in a recent news release. Industry observers note that the move could limit access for businesses seeking gig labor. Mechanical Turk will continue to operate for
those already signed up.