The cheapest layer of the AI stack just got deleted. Amazon shuts Mechanical Turk on Sept 30 — 21 years after Bezos called it "artificial artificial intelligence." 500,000+ people labeled data there for pennies a task. The twist: LLMs ate the work that trained LLMs. Still a data pipe in your stack? Five weeks to move. More → www.contentbuffer.com Synthetic data or contracted annotators — which are you betting on? #AI #MachineLearning #MLOps #DataLabeling #TechNews #ContentBuffer