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Amazon Mechanical Turk platform shutdown

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Latest: Amazon to shut down Mechanical Turk platform in September 2026

Amazon has announced the permanent closure of its crowdsourced microtask marketplace, Mechanical Turk, effective September 30, 2026. The platform, which launched in 2005 to provide ‘human intelligence’ for tasks like dat

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AI impacts on political polarization and research integrity

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Latest: AI threatens integrity of online research and polling

Research indicates that large language models (LLMs) exhibit sycophancy, a tendency to agree with user prompts that may increase political polarization. In response to these risks, Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE)

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