AI Labs Paying Premium for Expert Judgment
darian314 · x · 2026-07-09
The post notes that labs are shifting their competitive focus to "paid created data." Examples include having doctors annotate clinical reasoning or litigation lawyers revise legal documents, even paying experts daily rates.
The author explains that training data is no longer just about public scraping; it has become an expensive, private, and hard-to-disclose investment.
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