the training data market of today is in a strange superposition where the samples of real tasks done by real people are everywhere and nowhere at the same time
on the one side, the likes of surge and mercor are raising and earning billions by hiring experts to do pretend work at a premium, while existing companies are generating data from their workflows organically for ~free
the training data market of today is in a strange superposition where the samples of real tasks done by real people are everywhere and nowhere at the same time
on the one side, the likes of surge and mercor are raising and earning billions by hiring experts to do pretend work at a premium, while existing companies are generating data from their workflows organically for ~free
this might be the arb of the decade
hidden in plain sight
Nice article