The marketplace built to supply human microtasks to machines closes in the same week that machines are said to have absorbed the last task worth doing.
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A builder says sub-agent management left accountability as the only human value
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One builder declared that Fable managing sub-agents made hand-coding worthless, leaving accountability as the only value left in human hands, as Amazon wound down Mechanical Turk, the 2005 marketplace that survived by labeling AI's training data.
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