Expert-labeled data will get more valuable as frontier models commoditize
iamKierraD · x · 2026-08-04
The author argues that expert-labeled data will become more valuable, not less.
They say frontier labs are still competing for high-quality human expertise because if models were truly commoditized, that fight would not be happening — and companies would already be seeing much stronger ROI from deployments.
Their conclusion: demand for skilled human input is about to rise sharply.
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