Re:Mechanical Turk shutting down September 30
by Ekaros on Thursday August 27, 2026 @07:10AM
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Seems like whole thing is destined to fail. Buyers of services are there to exploit and pay minimum they can get away with. And other side is ready to cheat if they can to get most out of it.
And same dynamic will apply to most cases. Unless you actually bring it in house with strict oversight. Which is thing to avoid originally...
Any remotely open platform for this sort of stuff is going to wrecked by LLMs. But making some sort of high trust, high verification market is going to end up sending prices high enough that it becomes an unattractive proposition for use. And even in that case it's just going to be a cat and mouse game of people figuring out how to game the system enough to get trusted before handing it off to the LLM.