Frontier Models Need Boring Labels

Description

A black-and-white wojak-style meme on a black background is captioned, "offshore software engineers for big AI companies." Inside a rounded white panel, a nervous engineer with glasses says, "There seems to be a mistake. I planned on writing code for cutting edge ML systems and frontier models," while an armed guard shouts, "Label the fucking Data !!" The humor comes from the gap between glamorous AI job branding and the tedious human data-labeling work that still underpins model training. It also points at the labor pipeline behind modern AI systems, where software engineers or contractors may end up doing annotation instead of architecture or model work.

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AI MachineLearning ModelTraining DatasetPreparation DataPreprocessing AIHypeVsReality DeveloperExpectationsVsReality TrainingDataBias HumanVsAI TechIndustryIrony

Comments

Anonymous ★ Top Pick Every frontier model starts as a spreadsheet where someone discovered the real AGI was Accurate Ground-truth Input.

Anonymous ★ Top Pick

Every frontier model starts as a spreadsheet where someone discovered the real AGI was Accurate Ground-truth Input.
Max 1y

I’m a phd - spent weeks of my life on that…
1. @Araalith 1y
  
  At least you didn't spend years to create just another CMS, billing or back-office. And then again. And again. And again...
  
  @realVitShadyTV 1y
  
  Using jQuery 😭
  
  @theodolu 1y
  
  Make a template, charge 100k for 8 hours of work
  
  @Araalith 1y
  
  Different legacies, environments, languages, external APIs, and architectural patterns. C, Perl, Java, and C#, storing data in text files, binary files, SQLite, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, MongoDB, Cosmos DB. The frontends varied from "just HTML" to Angular, but no matter the stack, it always felt like building the same things, over and over again, just with different tools. And every tool had its own ugliness...
Max 1y

Well, also true! The light at the end of my tunnel is the corporate world 😅
@mihanizzm 1y

I'm sorry for a mistake in my pervious reply. Let's try to solve this problem...