Feeding the machine
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it does well to sell picks and shovels during a "gold" rush.
but i didn't realize how many picks and shovels there were to sell. and to see so many human resource companies pivot into data creation turk machines and spout things like maybe all the jobs will be data creation jobs in the future, entirely misses the point on why we would want a future to begin with...
to think so much high quality data creation work would be happily volunteered if these models were developed by public infrastructure, but instead we have a system battling for the cheapest work, questionable quality in a completely non transparent black box...
Published
2025
Summary
Frontier labs like OpenAI and Anthropic need vast amounts of data in the race to achieve AGI. This comes at a pretty penny — billions of dollars — and little-known companies like Mercor and Handshake are cleaning up in this AI hype cycle.
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