Amazon, Mechanical Turk 서비스 중단 — RLHF의 초기 형태였던 걸까?
Amazon이 2026년 신규 사용자 대상 Mechanical Turk 운영을 중단하며 '인공적 인공 지능' 크라우드소싱 플랫폼의 시대가 사실상 막을 내립니다.
amazon web services announced that mechanical turk will stop accepting new customers on july 30, 2026, placing the decades-old crowdsourcing service into maintenance mode without further updates. launched in 2005 as 'artificial artificial intelligence,' the platform became obsolete as ai labs shifted to specialized vendors like scale ai to handle high-quality training data and difficult edge cases. a 2023 study revealed that crowdworkers were already using llms to complete tasks, undermining the platform's utility for generating reliable human data. existing customers can continue using the service, but the move signals the end of general-purpose micro-tasking as a viable ai infrastructure layer.