AI Is a Lot of Work - Quite a long article, somewhat ironically a bit of a slog to read, but it's well written and certainly eye opening. The AI Annotation Industrial Complex that is highlighted is the iceberg behind the recent AI models like ChatGPT. There are elements that really remind me of the VFX industry, such as project based work that moves around the globe quickly based on demand, and workers clubbing together to help each other out. But it also feels like there could be some exploitative practices going on. The numbers are bordering on mindboggling, with current estimates in the millions, but projected to move into potentially billions of people. That's right, some predict double digit percentages of the entire human population of earth employed training robots, though it would likely be somewhat temporary until base models are trained. The article ends on a bit of a strange snake eating it's tail thing which left me worried about how structuraly sound this house of cards actually might be.www.theverge.com #