{"id":240744,"date":"2026-07-06T11:40:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-06T15:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/amazons-artificial-artificial-intelligence-is-being-eaten-by-ai\/"},"modified":"2026-07-06T12:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-07-06T16:05:15","slug":"amazons-artificial-artificial-intelligence-is-being-eaten-by-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/06\/amazons-artificial-artificial-intelligence-is-being-eaten-by-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon\u2019s \u2018Artificial Artificial Intelligence\u2019 Is Being Eaten by AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/amazons-artificial-artificial-intelligence-is-being-eaten-by-ai-2000781726\">Amazon\u2019s \u2018Artificial Artificial Intelligence\u2019 Is Being Eaten by AI<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/amazons-artificial-artificial-intelligence-is-being-eaten-by-ai-2000781726\">https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/amazons-artificial-artificial-intelligence-is-being-eaten-by-ai-2000781726<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-07-06 11:40:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"gizmodo.com\">gizmodo.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Origin of Mechanical Turk<\/strong>: In the late 18th century, Wolfgang von Kempelen created a hoax mechanical chess player dubbed the &#8220;mechanical Turk,&#8221; which actually concealed a human chess master controlling the machine.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Amazon&#8217;s Mechanical Turk<\/strong>: Launched in 2005 by Amazon, Mechanical Turk (MTurk) was a platform that paid gig workers to perform tasks humans can do but machines couldn&#8217;t automate, like audio transcription and image analysis.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Shift from Human Labor to AI<\/strong>: Initially popular, MTurk has seen its relevance diminish as actual AI becomes efficient and cheaper at completing the tasks it once relied on human labor for.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Amazon&#8217;s Plans for MTurk<\/strong>: Amazon announced that it will no longer accept new users starting July 30, 2026, signaling a phase-out of the platform due to AI advancements that can now handle its tasks more efficiently.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p><strong>Impact on Users and Researchers<\/strong>: Current users and academic researchers who relied on MTurk, now face uncertainty as the number of tasks on the platform likely will decrease. The platform&#8217;s closure has elicited mixed feelings from early users nostalgic for its founding role in gig work.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon\u2019s \u2018Artificial Artificial Intelligence\u2019 Is Being Eaten by AI https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/amazons-artificial-artificial-intelligence-is-being-eaten-by-ai-2000781726 Publish Date: 2026-07-06 11:40:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":240745,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/gizmodo.com\/app\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Amazon-1200x675.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-240744","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240744"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240744"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240744\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":240746,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240744\/revisions\/240746"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240745"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}