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AI companies are hiring experts to close gaps in their models. Platforms like Mercor and micro1 can grow while an individual expert’s queue goes empty. What will make the customer pay for your judgment again? semidiffusion.com/p/ai-is-hi…
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Early warning signs are mounting that AI is already impacting the job market in NYC.
New data just out show entry-level job postings in the city are way down in the careers most exposed to AI. Below chart shows change in NYC since 2022:
This is coming fast and we are doing almost nothing about it.
Launching clawded.ai for semi◦diffusion: a matching tool for remote AI data and evaluation work. It brings together openings across platforms, checks them at the source, and helps you identify which ones are worth your time.
semidiffusion.com/p/launchin…
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“If you're training AI to do what people have spent years and years perfecting in their careers… aren't you necessarily endangering human work?” 60 Minutes’ Jon Wertheim asks Brendan Foody, CEO of AI training startup Mercor.
“I think that you're changing human work,” Foody says. “It might not necessarily be that repetitive task that people have done in the past, but there are still so many other things that people could be able to do. And so I think that evolution is natural.” cbsn.ws/4ylJGwV
“Training AI is the fastest growing job category in history.” no doubt about that
Mercor sits between professionals seeking AI training work and clients buying expert judgment. The challenge is determining whether someone’s experience will translate into reliable work. semidiffusion.com/p/qualifie…
semi◦diffusion follows the business of AI and expert work: how platforms operate, where demand is moving. AI training data is not just a labeling business; it is also a market for professional judgment.
Qualified for Mercor. Still No Offer?
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I made $37,000 in 4 months on Mercor doing remote AI training work.
The skill that paid: spotting where AI reasoning breaks.
I wrote up my approach to the AI interview, expert tasks, and the work behind that number.
semidiffusion.com/p/how-i-ma…
Where You Can Actually Work From: Which AI Training Platforms Accept You open.substack.com/pub/worldm…
Some passages of writing deserve to be rendered in images.
I still remember the feeling the first time I read the autobiography West with the Night by Beryl Markham. She flew airplanes over the African continent, gazing down upon a wild, primordial land bursting with life.
different exit circles. different views
Dario and Demis at Davos on AI jobs impact.
Dario says we are headed to “unusual situation of high GDP growth and high unemployment” with 50% unemployment for entry level jobs within 5 years.
Demis responds to Dario’s prediction and says he has a “longer timeline”. The models still have to solve for “consistency” and the “jagged intelligence” issue. An agent that can do 95% of a job won’t replace the job, it would have to do 100% and that’s still a ways away.