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Unsurprising but still big: MTurk is on its way out. Mechanical Turk was a mainstay of social & survey research through the 2010s, as it all…
Unsurprising but still big: MTurk is on its way out. Mechanical Turk was a mainstay of social & survey research through the 2010s, as it allowed you to quickly buy access to many representative humans
Unsurprising but still big: MTurk is on its way out. Mechanical Turk was a mainstay of social & survey research through the 2010s, as it allowed you to quickly buy access to many representative humans. It was pretty good at it, until LLMs came along and everyone started using AI
Source: Ethan Mollick (X) | 2026-07-07