‘Losing a piece of my life’: As Amazon’s Mechanical Turk shuts down, gig workers recall the HITs

Launched in 2005 as a platform where human workers could perform quick digital chores that early software couldn't handle, the marketplace became a fixture for researchers, remote freelancers, and data labelers worldwide — and its exit is triggering a wave of…

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