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A comment on Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30. Parent comment

Re:Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 by tibbon on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @09:06PM (#49458114)
Humans were once useful!
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Re:Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30 by d0mine on Sunday August 30, 2026 @02:54PM (#49501659)
Humans are still useful.

MTurk likely can't fight with cheaters now. It would be useful to give some tasks to humans, if there were an economical way to ensure humans will do them.

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