Data Annotation: The AI Gold Rush & Skilled Labor
Hey there, Sapiens! @everyone
🚀 New from Sapien’s Head of Product, Lauren Mushro:
Jack of All Trades, Master of None — The Data Annotation Gold Rush.
Everyone’s racing to own the data annotation supply chain.
Few are asking who it’s built for.
Lauren breaks down why annotation deserves to be treated as skilled, high-value labor.
👉 Read her take right here: https://contours-newsletter-c2fdee.beehiiv.com/p/jack-of-all-trades-master-of-none-the-data-annotation-gold-rush-and-the-new-gig-economy-in-ai
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Jack of All Trades, Master of None: The Data Annotation Gold Rush

Why the future of AI depends less on scale, and more on the people training the data behind it.
Lauren Benj (@laubenjam) on X
Head of Product @JoinSapien | PhD @JohnsHopkins | "Language transcends us, and yet we speak"
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