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⚠️ Amazon Mechanical Turk is no longer accepting new customers. We recommend existing customers migrate to a third-party solution. More information is available here.Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcingmarketplace that makes it easier for individuals andbusinesses to outsource their processes and jobs to adistributed workforce who can perform these tasksvirtually. This could include anything from conductingsimple data validation and research to more subjectivetasks like survey participation, content moderation, andmore. MTurk enables companies to harness the collectiveintelligence, skills, and insights from a global workforceto streamline business processes, augment data collectionand analysis, and accelerate machine learning development.While technology continues to improve, there are stillmany things that human beings can do much more effectivelythan computers, such as moderating content, performingdata deduplication, or research. Traditionally, tasks likethis have been accomplished by hiring a large temporaryworkforce, which is time consuming, expensive anddifficult to scale, or have gone undone. Crowdsourcing isa good way to break down a manual, time-consuming projectinto smaller, more manageable tasks to be completed bydistributed workers over the Internet (also known asMTurk is well-suited to take on simple and repetitivetasks in your workflows which need to be handledmanually. Using MTurk to outsource microtasks ensuresthat work gets done quickly, while freeing up time andresources for the company – so internal staff can focusScaling up and down a workforce isn’t the easiestundertaking. With access to a global, on-demand, 24x7workforce, MTurk enables businesses and organizations toget work done easily and quickly when they need it –without the difficulty associated with dynamically