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“Once AI companies have taught their models to perform a certain job, their need for more training data in that area could sharply decline. In this way, data-training start-ups are like the freelancers they employ: making $$ today, in danger of being dropped…” evidence ↗
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“Once AI companies have taught their models to perform a certain job, their need for more training data in that area could sharply decline. In this way, data-training start-ups are like the freelancers they employ: making $$ today, in danger of being dropped…”
“it's not like Mercor is the first to do this, but interesting that AI companies hiring experts is (finally) getting attention :: www.nytimes.com/2026/07/10/b...”
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Jeffrey P. Bigham: end of an era. the lesson one should not take from this is that human annotation/labeling is over, but the players have changed. scale, surge, companies that work at larger scale, have taken over.
Jeffrey P. Bigham: it's always been a little bit odd how little amazon invested in making mturk good, yet they kept it around. the lore was something about how they were keeping it in case it became useful.
Long Lasting Mascot: Indeed. My first project in grad school involved getting turkers to annotate data for us. The results were not good, but I was never sure if it was our instructions or their abilities.
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