Is specialized training data becoming the next bottleneck over compute? Reddit debate
budfischer · reddit · 2026-09-25
A Reddit thread asks whether high-quality specialized data now matters as much as compute. As labs pay programmers, doctors and lawyers to produce expert training data, the poster questions why annotation companies can sell to both frontier labs and overseas competitors — and whether data should face export controls like chips.
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